The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ANNE CARSONWe’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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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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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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