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.
ANNE CARSONThe self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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