He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONLove dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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There is no person without a world.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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