Desire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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