Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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 human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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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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