He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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