Caught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSONWords bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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