"A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive."

--

Source : Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

Anne Carson

#Time Quotes #Moving Quotes #Mean Quotes

“The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.”
“How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.”
“What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.”

Source : Jane Austen (2008). “Emma: By Jane Austen”, p.245, MobileReference
“When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92”
“I started to kiss him back, slower and clumsy where his had been sure, practiced. I was worried I was doing it wrong, but then a deep sound came from him, almost a growl and instinctively I knew it was a sound of approval.”
“Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!”
“Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front of me. All I had to do was set up and take the picture.”

Source : Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith
“Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!”

You may also like:

C.D. Wright
Poet
Claudia Rankine
Poet
Elizabeth Bishop
Poet
Fanny Howe
Poet
Louise GluÌˆck
Poet
Rachel Kushner
Writer
Sappho
Lyric poet
Simone Weil
Philosopher
Virginia Woolf
Writer