When I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSONIt is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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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.
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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.
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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 don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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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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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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