Under the seams runs the pain.
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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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