Desire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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