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.
ANNE CARSONWhen 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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