Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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