It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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.
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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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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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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