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.
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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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