Desire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONSimply 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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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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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 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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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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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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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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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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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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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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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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