Under the seams runs the pain.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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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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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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There is no person without a world.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Desire is no light thing.
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