Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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