Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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