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.
ANNE CARSONLove dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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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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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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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