To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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