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.
ANNE CARSONMy religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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