We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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You 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.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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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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