Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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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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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.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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