No one will ever make necessity not happen.
ANNE CARSONLove dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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