Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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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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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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There is no person without a world.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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