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.
ANNE CARSONYou remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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