You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
ANNE CARSONIt is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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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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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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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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