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.
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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