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Anne Carson Inspirational Quotes (63)

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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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I was more worn out with the Odyssey than it was with the Iliad. I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the Iliad is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the Odyssey is more comfortable, even for us.
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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
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There is no person without a world.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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