You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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Sometimes 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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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.
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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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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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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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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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There is no person without a world.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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