Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONDo you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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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 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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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There is no person without a world.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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