If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSONMeanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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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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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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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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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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