Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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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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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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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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