What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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