You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
ANNE CARSONIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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 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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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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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