I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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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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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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