Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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 takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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