Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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