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.
ANNE CARSON- 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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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.
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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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.
ANNE CARSONDo 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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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.
ANNE CARSONI 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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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
ANNE CARSONA 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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONLava bread makes you passionate.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
ANNE CARSONWe’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
ANNE CARSONWhat makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
ANNE CARSONMaybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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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.
ANNE CARSONWhen 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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONWe participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
ANNE CARSONThose nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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