Photograph by Guy Bolongaro
Lying and error are the same word for the Greeks, which is interesting.
That is, “to be wrong” could have various causes:
you wanted to lie,
or you just didn’t know the truth,
or you forgot,
and those are all one concept.
That interests me, the bundling together and looking at the situation from a point of view of consequences and not motivation.
- Anne Carson
(from Gifts And Questions)
photograph by Kael Alford
Day after day
I think of you as soon as I wake up.
Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.
- Anne Carson
From Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
Photograph by Danny Lyon
After all, the only rule of travel is,
don’t come back the way you went.
Come a new way.
- Anne Carson
From Plainwater: Essays and Poetry; The Anthropology of Water.
Photograph by Leonard Freed
The man who named my narrow bed was a quiet person, but he had good questions.
“I suppose you do love me, in your way,”
I said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed.
“And how else should I love you—in your way?” he asked.
I am still thinking about that.
- Anne Carson
From Plainwater: Essays and Poetry