Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONYou 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.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Desire is no light thing.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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