My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSONAristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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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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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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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