Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
ANNE CARSONComfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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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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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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