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.
ANNE CARSONEverything 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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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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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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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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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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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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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Desire is no light thing.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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