Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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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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Desire is no light thing.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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