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.
ANNE CARSONOne of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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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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