What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
ANNE CARSONAt 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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