#anne carson eros

[memoriesofthingspast]

🌹💎💠🔥🎻✨☠️

[crueldesire]

eros the bittersweet, anne carson / saltburn (2023) dir. emerald fennell

[erosdoceamargo]

nbc hannibal / eros the bittersweet: an essay, by anne carson

[aeneaslament]

from eros the bittersweet by anne carson

poem by sappho

[juliakristeva]

antigonick, trans. anne carson / bram stoker's dracula (1997)

[derangedrhythms]

It is not uncommon in love to experience this heightened sense of one’s own personality (‘I am more myself than ever before!’ the lover feels)

Anne Carson, from ‘Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay’

[orpheuslament]

Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson

[litandlifequotes]

When you are falling in love it is always already too late: dēute, as the poets say.

Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson

[benitariums]

from the shelf [002/???]: eros the bittersweet, anne carson

[memoriesofthingspast]

[crueldesire]

eros the bittersweet, anne carson / saltburn (2023) dir. emerald fennell

[diana-andraste]

It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.

Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

[sunlighthroughthe-ashes]

anne carson once wrote a book of essays titled "eros the bittersweet" — a phrase which is so apt, when applied to sol and sunjae. "eros the bittersweet" — because the touch of love is both pain and blessing; and no two people know that better than sunjae and sol. their love was fractured, but fundamental to their very being — it was raw, but it was real. they went through agony, consecrated their devotion in the saltwater of sacrifice — and saved each other in every way a man and woman could be saved, because love is redemption, capable of moving the sun and stars.

one of the fundamental concepts in carson's compendium of essays is what occupies the space between a lover and his beloved — a profound "lack," an unbridged distance — which is known as desire. this is what lingers in every look and touch between sol and sunjae before they finally receive their happy ending: a "lack" — whether it was the wrong timeline, the wrong moment; the wrong year — they were just inches away from belonging to each other. seconds away from each other's skin — brushing briefly against each other's hearts: residing there forever.

but though carson believed that this "lack" could never be overcome — that it was the core of love: sunjae and sol managed to pass through it. they surmounted death, memory loss; thwarted the constraints of time and destiny — all for each other. sunjae gave his life for sol. and sol gave up her one shot at happiness for him. they fought for each other until the very end, and fate finally rewarded them — the flowers overhead pink with the peace and contentment of their future together. their love carries that ancient freshness of cherry blossoms — the petal-soft connection of souls strung alongside each other, stretching across lifetimes. across universes. across centuries. a love worthy of the gods themselves. a love for which eros might break his own arrow.

eros might be bittersweet; but sol and sunjae make it beautiful. 🌸🤍

[derangedrhythms]

[…] erotic mania is a valuable thing in private life. It puts wings on your soul. 

Anne Carson, from ‘Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay’

[a-book-is-a-garden]

“In fact, neither reader nor writer nor lover achieves such consumation. The words we read and the words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.”

Anne Carson, “Eros the Bittersweet”

[orpheuslament]

Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson