Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONWe’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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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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 takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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