Red Doc> Quotes

“To feel anything
deranges you. To be seen
feeling anything strips you
naked. In the grip of it
pleasure or pain doesn’t
matter. You think what
will they do what new
power will they acquire if
they see me naked like
this. If they see you
feeling. You have no idea
what. It’s not about them.
To be seen is the penalty.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“at the bottom of the ocean is a layer of water that has never moved…”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“Some conversations are not about what they're about.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“You read a hundred
military manuals you won't
find the word kill they trick
you into killing.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“Time as hunger.
Time passing and gazing.
Time as perseverance.
Mountain time.
Time as paper folded to look like a mountain.
Time compared to the wild fantastic silence of stars.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“what is the difference between
poetry and prose you know the old analogies prose
is a house poetry a man in flames running
quite fast through it”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“And yet hope turns
out to be let's face it
mostly delusion a word
derived from Latin ludere
meaning "to play a game
with oneself or others"...”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“chorus
should we discuss your
philanthropy
prometheus
I went a bit too far
chorus
how do you mean
prometheus
I stopped them seeing death before them
chorus
who
prometheus
human beings
chorus
how
prometheus
I planted blind hope in their hearts
chorus
why
prometheus
they were breaking
chorus
you fool”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“What is a culture? A
culture is what approves
or disapproves of the
actions in its midst. Yet
how rare for approval to
be unanimous.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“Comparison
makes you less interesting
to yourself doesn't it.
Your magic contracts your
body putting forth no frill
under another's gaze.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“In later years this
is the one memory he
wishes would go away and
not come back. And the
reason he cannot bear her
dying is not the loss of her
(which is the future) but
that dying puts the two of
them (now) into this
nakedness together that is
unforgiveable. They do not
forgive it. He turns away.
This roaring air in his
arms. She is released.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“HE WAS FOURTEEN
it was years ago and Sad’s
name wasn’t Sad yet. First
comet. G had just
stumbled off a bus they
looked at one another and
that lasted until G was
almost twenty but he.
Well. Being a loyal soul
himself. Sad’s need to
make friends everywhere.
Sex friends club friends
gym friends dope friends
shopping friends
breakdown friends a
common enough problem.
Sad didn’t see a problem.
One day he looked around
and G was gone.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“Wife of Brain

don't say you weren't
expecting a volcano those
red wings
that not even bad love can tame
must signify something's
somewhere
about to go up in flame or
(as Proust says) be
eternalized in pleasure
like the men
in a Pompeian house of ill
fate yet fame
is not ill
for all”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“So much
human cruelty is simply
incidental is simply
brainless. Simply no
common sense. You could
take the entirety of the
common sense of humans
and put it in the palm of
your hand and still have
room for your dick.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“WHEN HE IS there they
lift the stones together.
The stones are her lungs.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“WHEN HE IS there they
list the stones together.
The stones are her lungs.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“Components of today include a shape asleep on the floor an erased white world the tumblers vibrating in the closet and he brought the wrong book. Alive in a room as usual.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“I look awful don’t I.
No you look like my Ma.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“I look awful don’t I.
No you look
like my Ma.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“I look awful don’t I. No you look
like my Ma. Now she
winces. In later years
this is the one memory he
wished would go away and
not come back.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“I look awful don’t I. No you look
like my Ma. Now she
winces, In later years
this is the one memory he
wished would go away and
not come back.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“I look awful don’t I. No you look
like my Ma”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>