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Anne Carson Inspirational Quotes (63)

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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, where can I put it down?
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
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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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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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