Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
ANNE CARSONMaybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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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 a journey makes itself necessary.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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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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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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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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