Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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