You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
ANNE CARSONReality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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