Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
ANNE CARSONExistence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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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