Lava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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