Anne Carson Quotes

“There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.”

“There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.”

“the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...”

“In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.”

“Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.”

“An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.”

“The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.”

“The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.”

“Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.”

“Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.”

“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”