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.
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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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There is no person without a world.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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