Anne Carson Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Mean, Two

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.109, Princeton University Press

• When I desire you a part of me is gone.

  Anne Carson

  Desire, Gone

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

• Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.

  Anne Carson

  Love You, Self, Issues

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

• Desire is no light thing.

  Anne Carson

  Light, Desire

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

• You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

  Anne Carson

  Desire, And Love, Golden

  Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.35, Vintage

• Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.

  Anne Carson

  Character, Being In Love, Reality

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.85, Princeton University Press

• Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.

  Anne Carson

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.224, Vintage

• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

  Anne Carson

  Desire, And Love, Madness

  Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.35, Vintage

• All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

  Anne Carson

  Hate, Axes, Desire

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

• The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

  Anne Carson

  Self, Effort, Desire

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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