Desire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONWhy does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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