Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSONDesire is no light thing.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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