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.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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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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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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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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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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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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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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