Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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