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.
ANNE CARSONYou 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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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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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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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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