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.
ANNE CARSONI mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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