A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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