I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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