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.
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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