Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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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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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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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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