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.
ANNE CARSONA refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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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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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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