A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSONExistence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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