Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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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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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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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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