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 CARSONI 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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There is no person without a world.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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