Anne Carson

Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, and professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.

Quotes
and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
 * My religion makes no sense
 * "My Religion", Glass, Irony, and God, New Directions (New York, NY), 1995.

I believe they are out of wine, etc., practical things — watching with one eye as he goes about the world calling himself The Son Of Man.
 * She doesn't get to say much in the official biography —
 * "God's Mother", Glass, Irony, and God, New Directions (New York, NY), 1995.

over the haystacks that sweep past keep shocking him because he is riding backwards.
 * while the shadows like long fingers
 * "Father’s Old Blue Cardigan", Men in the Off Hours, Knopf (New York, NY), 2000.