Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
ANNE CARSON
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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