Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONYou remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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