Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
ANNE CARSONCould you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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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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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.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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