Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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