One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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