My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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