It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONDo 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.
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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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 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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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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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.
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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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