We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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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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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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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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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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