I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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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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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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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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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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