Desire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONTo be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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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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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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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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