There is no person without a world.
ANNE CARSONA page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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