Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
ANNE CARSONYou 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Simply 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.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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 refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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