I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
ANNE CARSONWhen 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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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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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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I 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.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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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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