I never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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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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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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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