When I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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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Desire is no light thing.
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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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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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