Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
ANNE CARSONWe humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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 do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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