Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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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 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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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