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.
ANNE CARSONYou 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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There is no person without a world.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Desire is no light thing.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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