Under the seams runs the pain.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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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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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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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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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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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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There is no person without a world.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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