Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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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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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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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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.
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