Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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 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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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It 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.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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I 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.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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There is no person without a world.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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