When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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There is no person without a world.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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