Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONI 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.
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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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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 desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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