Elizabeth

“How does distance look?” is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved. It depends on light.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“My intuition—it is nothing more than that—is that music, common, shared, everyday music, low or high or somewhere in between, is able, at its best, to describe how we feel and to allow us to feel something more.”
― Simon Critchley, Mysticism

“Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“He loved, that is, the process of coming to know… In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown… It is an erotic space. When the mind reaches out to know, the space of desire opens.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet