Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
ANNE CARSONI mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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