Quotes by Anne Carson

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Poet and academic · Canadian · 1950

Canadian poet and academic (born 1950)

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“at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved…”
— Anne Carson
ocean

“Some conversations are not about what they're about.”
— Anne Carson
conversation

“My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.”
— Anne Carson

“She doesn't get to say much in the official biography — I believe they are out of wine, etc., practical things — watching with one eye as he goes about the world calling himself The Son Of Man.”
— Anne Carson