Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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