Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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