Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
ANNE CARSONMadness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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