Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSONThe self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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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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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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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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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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