Anne Carson, Autobiography Of Red Quotes

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

She stumbled then and Geryon caught her other arm, it was like a handful of autumn. He felt huge and wrong. When is it polite to let go someone’s arm after you grab it?

But when justice is done the world drops away.

Are there many little boys who think they are a Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded himJoyfully

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.