Lava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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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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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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