You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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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