My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSONI am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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’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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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.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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 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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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