Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONDesire is no light thing.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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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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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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