Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
ANNE CARSONI’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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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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There is no person without a world.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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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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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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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 for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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