Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
ANNE CARSONTime isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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There is no person without a world.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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