Caught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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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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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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There is no person without a world.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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