Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
ANNE CARSON
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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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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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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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.
ANNE CARSON