The Beauty of the Husband Quotes

“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, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“Repression speaks about sex better than any other form of discourse / or so the modern experts maintain. How do people / get power over one another? is an algebraic question”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“All myth is an enriched pattern,
a two-faced proposition,
allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars.
And from the true lies of poetry
trickled out a question.

What really connects words and things?”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“A wound gives off its own light
surgeons say.
If all the lamps in the house were turned out
you could dress this wound
by what shines from it.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“A wound gives off its own light
surgeons say.
If all the lamps in the house were turned out
you could dress this wound
by what shines from it”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“A cold ship

moves out of harbor somewhere way inside the wife
and slides off toward the flat gray horizon,

not a bird not a breath in sight.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“Loyal to nothing
my husband. So why did I love him from early girlhood to late middle age
and the divorce decree came in the mail?
Beauty. No great secret. Not ashamed to say I loved him for his beauty.
As I would again
if he came near. Beauty convinces.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“But you overlook
an important cultural function of games,
to test the will of the gods.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“Fiction forms what streams in us. Naturally it is suspect.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“XI. MAKE YOUR CUTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LIVING JOINTS OF THE FORM SAID SOCRATES TO PHAEDRUS WHEN THEY WERE DISSECTING A SPEECH ABOUT LOVE.


Why did nature give me to this creature-- don't call it my choice, I was ventured:
by some pure gravity of existence itself,
conspirancy of being!
We were fifteen.
It was Latin class, late spring, late afternoon, the passive periphrastic,
for some reason I turned my seat
and there he was.
You know how they say a Zen butcher makes one correct cut and the
whole ox
falls apart
like a puzzle. Yes a cliché.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“Seguir siendo humano es romper un impedimento.
Quiérelo si eres capaz. Quiérelo si te atreves.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“I only feel clean he says suddenly when I wake up with you.
The seduction of force is from below.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“El deseo duplicado es amor y el amor duplicado es locura.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“To abolish seduction is a mother's goal.
She will replace it with what is real - products.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“los celos pueden comerse un corazón hasta el centro”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos