Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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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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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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