Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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