Lava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONMy religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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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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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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Desire is no light thing.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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