I never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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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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