I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
ANNE CARSONUp against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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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