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.
ANNE CARSON- 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.
ANNE CARSON
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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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSONIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSONComfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSONMadness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONUp against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
ANNE CARSONThose nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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.
ANNE CARSONYou 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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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
ANNE CARSONWe are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
ANNE CARSONI am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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