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.
ANNE CARSONTime isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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