Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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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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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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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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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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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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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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