It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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