We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONIt 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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