Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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