Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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There is no person without a world.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Desire is no light thing.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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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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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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