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.
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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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