Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSONThose nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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There is no person without a world.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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