You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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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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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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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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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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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 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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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