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.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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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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I 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.
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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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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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There is no person without a world.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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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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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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