Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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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 is no light thing.
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There is no person without a world.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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