{"author":"Anne Carson","author_id":"Anne+Carson","total_quotes":50,"quotes":[{"text":"So muchhuman cruelty is simplyincidental is simplybrainless. Simply nocommon sense. You couldtake the entirety of thecommon sense of humansand put it in the palm ofyour hand and still haveroom for your dick.","author":"Anne Carson","tags":["common-sense","cruelty"],"id":30698,"author_id":"Anne+Carson"},{"text":"Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan.","author":"Anne Carson","tags":["misfortune","sophocles","tragedy"],"id":57280,"author_id":"Anne+Carson"},{"text":"Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.","author":"Anne Carson","tags":["reality","sound"],"id":63583,"author_id":"Anne+Carson"},{"text":"Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.","author":"Anne Carson","tags":["imagery","loneliness","ocean","poetry","sea"],"id":85360,"author_id":"Anne+Carson"},{"text":"When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his person, an influx like eros becomes a concrete personal threat. So in the lyric poets, love is something that assaults or invades the body of the lover to wrest control of it from him, a personal struggle of will and physique between the god and his victim. The poets describe this struggle from within a consciousness – perhaps new in the world – of the body as a unity of limbs, senses and self, amazed at its own vulnerability.","author":"Anne Carson","tags":["consciousness","eros","love","self"],"id":109874,"author_id":"Anne+Carson"},{"text":"All the tall mad mountains of her mind.","author":"Anne Carson","tags":["insanity","loss","trauma"],"id":110711,"author_id":"Anne+Carson"},{"text":"LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.","author":"Anne Carson","tags":["glass","god","irony"],"id":115679,"author_id":"Anne+Carson"},{"text":"He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.","author":"Anne Carson","tags":["people","psychology"],"id":118029,"author_id":"Anne+Carson"},{"text":"...Heracles was strangely silent. What is he thinking? / Geryon wondered. / Geryon watched prehistoric rocks move past the car and thought about thoughts. / Even when they were lovers / he had never known what Herakles was thinking. Once in a while he would say, / Penny for your thoughts! / and it always turned out to be some odd thing like a bumper sticker or a dish / he'd eaten in a Chinese restaurant years ago. / What Geryon was thinking Herakles never asked. In the space between them / developed a dangerous cloud.","author":"Anne Carson","tags":["distance","love","thoughts"],"id":125641,"author_id":"Anne+Carson"},{"text":"DEATH. . .And now you are here to fight for this woman.You know her promise is given.She has to die or her husband won't go free.APOLLORelax, I'm not breaking any laws.DEATHWhy the bow, if you're breaking no laws?APOLLOI always carry a bow, it's my trademark.","author":"Anne Carson","tags":["comedy","humor"],"id":150889,"author_id":"Anne+Carson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}