A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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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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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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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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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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