Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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