Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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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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.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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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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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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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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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 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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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