Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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