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.
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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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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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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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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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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