Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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