It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSON
A 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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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