To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSONThere is no person without a world.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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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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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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Desire is no light thing.
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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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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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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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