A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Do 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.
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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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.
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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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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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