Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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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 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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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.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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