A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
ANNE CARSONI 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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 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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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