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.
ANNE CARSONHere we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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