Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONLove dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Desire is no light thing.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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