Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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You 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.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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