Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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 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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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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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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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