To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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