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.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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