Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONWhy does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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