Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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