A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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