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.
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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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There is no person without a world.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Desire is no light thing.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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