No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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