Anne Carson - Edge Quotes

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Infants begin to see by noticing the edges of things. How do they know an edge is an edge? By passionately wanting it not to be. The experience of eros as lack alerts a person to the boundaries of himself, of other people, of things in general. It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.

Anne Carson

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Anne Carson