Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Desire is no light thing.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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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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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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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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