Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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There is no person without a world.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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