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.
ANNE CARSONMyths 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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There is no person without a world.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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