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.
ANNE CARSONYou can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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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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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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