He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSON
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.
ANNE CARSON
You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
ANNE CARSON
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSON
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
ANNE CARSON
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSON
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSON
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.
ANNE CARSON
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.
ANNE CARSON
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSON
You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
ANNE CARSON
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.
ANNE CARSON
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSON
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSON
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSON
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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