A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSON
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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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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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSON