Anne Carson Quotes

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

I see flaws as a kind of beauty.

If it's extravagant, colorful and detailed, it catches my eye.

She is not truly beautiful but something about her draws the eye.

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody's perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.

Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Our flaws are what make us perfect.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it.

Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character they’re meant to have by really being used. … when you own things that have the imperfections they deserve, that they’ve earned from a well-lived life, it frees you from feeling as though they’re untouchable.

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.

I never want to go back and remix old records, either. If a record sounds shitty, that's just the sound it has. I just take it as part of the music. Some of my favorite bands - their old records sound terrible. But that's just part of the sound. If they were perfect, I'd probably hate them. Same thing with movies.

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. I get moved by the wrinkles on the throat of a man. It makes me love him more. I think it is sad that more women don't take the chance that maybe men will be moved by seeing the chin a little less firm than it used to be, that a man will be more in love with his wife because he remembers who she was and sees who she is and thinks, God, isn't that lovely that this happened to her. And be moved by life telling its story there.