Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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