Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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