Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSONWe participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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