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Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quotes

Total quotes: 5

Anne Carson

Birthname

AKA: Anne Carson

Birthday: June 21, 1950

Birthplace: Canada

Nationality: Canadian, Canada

Occupations: Poet, Linguist, University Teacher, Translator, Literary Critic

Total quotes: 5

“Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.”

— Anne Carson, A quote by Anne Carson

Tagged: Dream, writer, inspiration

“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.”

— Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

Tagged: Words, Unpredictable, People, Love

“Reality is a sound, you have to tune into it not just keep yelling.”

— Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

Tagged: Reality, Poetic, Advice

“…the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.”

— Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

Tagged: Snow

“Very few women in public life do not worry that their voices are too high or too light or too shrill to command respect. Margaret Thatcher trained for years with a vocal coach to make her voice sound more like those of the other Hounourable Members and still she earned the nickname Attila The Hen.”

— Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God(New Directions Paperbook)

Tagged: Sexism, Sexism In The Workplace, Gender Discrimination

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