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.
ANNE CARSONThere is no person without a world.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSONLife pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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.
ANNE CARSONAll 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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSONComfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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.
ANNE CARSONI 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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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
ANNE CARSONWhy does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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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.
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.
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There is no person without a world.
ANNE CARSONThere is no person without a world.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONWhen an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
ANNE CARSONWe are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
ANNE CARSONA page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
ANNE CARSONEach night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONThey were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSONA refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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