Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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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.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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