A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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There is no person without a world.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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