Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
ANNE CARSONThey were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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