Anne Carson Desire Quotations

Desire is no light thing.

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.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

When I desire you a part of me is gone...