Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
ANNE CARSONYou 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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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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