A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
ANNE CARSON
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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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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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Desire is no light thing.
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There is no person without a world.
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