Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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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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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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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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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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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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