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.
ANNE CARSON- 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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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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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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.
ANNE CARSONWe’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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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.
ANNE CARSONI 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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
ANNE CARSONAristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSONMadness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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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.
ANNE CARSONSometimes 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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
ANNE CARSONI don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
ANNE CARSONMaking is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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.
ANNE CARSONWhen 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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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