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.
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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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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