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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
Anne Carson
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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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More quotes by Anne Carson
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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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.
Anne Carson
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
Anne Carson
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
Anne Carson
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
Anne Carson
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
Anne Carson
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
Anne Carson
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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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.
Anne Carson
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
Anne Carson
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
Anne Carson
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
Anne Carson
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.
Anne Carson
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
Anne Carson
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.
Anne Carson
You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, where can I put it down?
Anne Carson
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
Anne Carson
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
Anne Carson
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
Anne Carson
