You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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