Anne Carson Quotes

There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.

Anne Carson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: June 21, 1950

Topics

MeThinkPushTryingI CanSay

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

John Morley

LifeGreatNeedInterpretationOught

You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.

Ann Romney

MotherYouKnowYoungFiveHow

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

Michael Ironside

PeopleMeWonderTakeEither

I am proud of my heritage and have happily taken advantage of every opportunity to educate my teammates and Steeler Nation about American Samoa, both as a player and in the community, through the Troy and Theodora Polamalu Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.

Troy Polamalu

OpportunityCommunityI AmProud

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.

Tracy Chapman

BusinessMusicCreativeWhatever

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

Tom Perrotta

MyselfPastOverYearsSeemUsed

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture.

Rob Lowe

CultureYouKnowUpShootMidwest

When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

Rudolf Steiner

ChildrenPaintingWritingDrawing

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.

Mike Shinoda

MusicBrotherDoingRememberActing

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

Louis L'Amour

MyselfMeSisterReadingDoingShe

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

SuccessFailureWillDiscouraged

I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over.

Drew Brees

ChangeI CanNewWayOldOver

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