Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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