Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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