The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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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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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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