Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Desire is no light thing.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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