I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
ANNE CARSONMy religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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 man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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