He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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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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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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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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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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