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.
ANNE CARSONReality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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 never had much education in English poetry as such.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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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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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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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