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Anne Carson83 quotes“It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.”
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson 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.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson Lava bread makes you passionate.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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I’m beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.
Adele ParksAdele Parks It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
John EldredgeJohn Eldredge Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
Anne CarsonAnne Carson All of this, however, is still in the discussion phase and in the initial planning phase.
Adel al-JubeirAdel al-Jubeir The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Men are the dreams of a shadow.
PindarPindar The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.
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