He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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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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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.
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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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