Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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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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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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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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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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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 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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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