He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Desire is no light thing.
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