Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
ANNE CARSONIt is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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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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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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