Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
ANNE CARSONTo live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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