One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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