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.
ANNE CARSONHere we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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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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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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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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