Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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There is no person without a world.
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Desire is no light thing.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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 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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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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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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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