Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
ANNE CARSONSometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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