Under the seams runs the pain.
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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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