Anne Carson Quotes
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A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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 came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
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Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan
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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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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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