I never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Desire is no light thing.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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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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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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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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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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