I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
ANNE CARSONDesire is no light thing.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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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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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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