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Anne Carson quotes: You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying. You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
Anne Carson quotes: English is a bitch English is a bitch
Anne Carson quotes: When I desire you a part of me is gone... When I desire you a part of me is gone...
Anne Carson quotes: It stung God. They say his spinal cord ran straight out of the sun. It stung God. They say his spinal cord ran straight out of the sun.
Anne Carson quotes: Facts are bigger in the dark. Facts are bigger in the dark.
Anne Carson quotes: Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition. Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.
Anne Carson quotes: Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling. Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
Anne Carson quotes: We live by waters breaking out of the heart. We live by waters breaking out of the heart.
Anne Carson quotes: God's pity! How long will it feel like burning? God's pity! How long will it feel like burning?
Anne Carson quotes: To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
Anne Carson quotes: We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves. We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
Anne Carson quotes: There is no person without a world. There is no person without a world.
Anne Carson quotes: Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue. Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
Anne Carson quotes: Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Anne Carson quotes: A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive. A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
Anne Carson quotes: They were two superior eelsat the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics. They were two superior eels
at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
Anne Carson quotes: Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty. Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
Anne Carson quotes: It takes practice to shave the skin off the light. It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
Anne Carson quotes: To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you. To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you.
Anne Carson quotes: If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it". If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it".
Anne Carson quotes: No one will ever make necessity not happen. No one will ever make necessity not happen.
Anne Carson quotes: I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing. I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing.
Anne Carson quotes: Your grief is as great as your splendor was: some god is weighing the one out equal to the other. Your grief is as great as your splendor was: some god is weighing the one out equal to the other.
Anne Carson quotes: That tang of dogshit in darkness. That's your starry crown. That tang of dogshit in darkness. That's your starry crown.
Anne Carson quotes: Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do. Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
Anne Carson quotes: He had a respect for facts maybe this was one. He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.
Anne Carson quotes: The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death. The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
Anne Carson quotes: What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall. What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
Anne Carson quotes: Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire. Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.
Anne Carson quotes: Caught between the tongue and the taste. Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson quotes: A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen. A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
Anne Carson quotes: Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
Anne Carson quotes: 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. 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.
Anne Carson quotes: My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it. My religion makes no sense
and does not help me
therefore I pursue it.
Anne Carson quotes: LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death. LIII.
What is the holiness of conversation?
It is
to master death.
Anne Carson quotes: M: Is he smartI: She yes very smart sees right through meM: In my day we valued blindness rather more M: Is he smart
I: She yes very smart sees right through me
M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
Anne Carson quotes: Youth is a dream where I go every night and wake with just this little jumping bunch of arteries in my hand. Youth is a dream where I go every night and wake with just this little jumping bunch of arteries in my hand.
Anne Carson quotes: Consider incompleteness as a verb. Consider incompleteness as a verb.
Anne Carson quotes: Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am. Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
Anne Carson quotes: How does distance look? is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved. How does distance look? is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved.
Anne Carson quotes: The moon makes a traveler hunger for something bitter in the world, what is it? I will vanish; others will come here, what is that? An old question. The moon makes a traveler hunger for something bitter in the world, what is it? I will vanish; others will come here, what is that? An old question.
Anne Carson quotes: You read a hundredmilitary manuals you won't find the word kill they trickyou into killing. You read a hundred
military manuals you won't
find the word kill they trick
you into killing.
Anne Carson quotes: Geryon was a monster everything about him was red Geryon was a monster everything about him was red
Anne Carson quotes: He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
Anne Carson quotes: Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
Anne Carson quotes: Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again. Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again.
Anne Carson quotes: Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time. Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.
Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
Anne Carson quotes: What sense is there in pain at all - however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God? What sense is there in pain at all - however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God?
Anne Carson quotes: Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women. Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
Anne Carson quotes: Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench. Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
Anne Carson quotes: Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not. Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not.
Anne Carson quotes: I am a drop of gold he would sayI am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things- I am a drop of gold he would say
I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
Anne Carson quotes: Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover isto watch the year repeat its days. Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is
to watch the year repeat its days.
Anne Carson quotes: There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit. There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit.
Anne Carson quotes: All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
Anne Carson quotes: Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world. Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
Anne Carson quotes: I never had much education in English poetry as such. I never had much education in English poetry as such.
Anne Carson quotes: I shall not walk your ways again. I shall not walk your ways again.
Anne Carson quotes: Some conversations are not about what they're about. Some conversations are not about what they're about.
Anne Carson quotes: It is for God to fix the time who knows no time, It is for God to fix the time who knows no time,
Anne Carson quotes: I don't want to be a person.I want to be unbearable. I don't want to be a person.
I want to be unbearable.
Anne Carson quotes: Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion. Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Anne Carson quotes: Well, they said, these are the pies we have. It was a proverb. Well, they said, these are the pies we have. It was a proverb.
Anne Carson quotes: 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. 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.
Anne Carson quotes: Lava bread makes you passionate. Lava bread makes you passionate.
Anne Carson quotes: There it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness. There it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness.
Anne Carson quotes: What's here doesn't please you,what's far off you crave.Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides What's here doesn't please you,
what's far off you crave.
Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Anne Carson quotes: XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud
Anne Carson quotes: Love does not make me gentle or kind. Love does not
make me gentle or kind.
Anne Carson quotes: Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary. Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
Anne Carson quotes: The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind. The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
Anne Carson quotes: We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth we call it life. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth
we call it life.
Anne Carson quotes: You remember too much,my mother said to me recently.Why hold onto all that?And I said,Where do I put it down? You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that?
And I said,
Where do I put it down?
Anne Carson quotes: No I mean everything everyone saw everyone saw because I saw it No I mean everything everyone saw everyone saw because I saw it
Anne Carson quotes: Desire is no light thing. Desire is no light thing.
Anne Carson quotes: It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together. It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
Anne Carson quotes: But when justice is done the world drops away. But when justice is done the world drops away.
Anne Carson quotes: Trapped in his own bad apple. Each morning a shockto return to the cut soul. Trapped in his own bad apple. Each morning a shock
to return to the cut soul.
Anne Carson quotes: Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh. Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh.
Anne Carson quotes: What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning. What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
Anne Carson quotes: Ascent of the rapist up the stairs seems as slow as lava. She listens to the black space where his consciousness is, moving towards her. Ascent of the rapist up the stairs seems as slow as lava. She listens to the black space where his consciousness is, moving towards her.
Anne Carson quotes: Like honey is the sleep of the just. Like honey is the sleep of the just.
Anne Carson quotes: Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief. Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
Anne Carson quotes: Repent means the pain again. Repent means the pain again.
Anne Carson quotes: Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
Anne Carson quotes: It is perilous to live past the end of your myth It is perilous to live past the end of your myth
Anne Carson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song. Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
Anne Carson quotes: When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acids and sentiment is just right. When is a pilgrim like a photograph? When the blend of acids and sentiment is just right.
Anne Carson quotes: I am talking about evil.It blooms.It eats.It grins. I am talking about evil.
It blooms.
It eats.
It grins.
Anne Carson quotes: Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public. Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
Anne Carson quotes: Pilgrims were people in scientific exile. Pilgrims were people in scientific exile.
Anne Carson quotes: You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick. You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.
Anne Carson quotes: Although a monster Geryon could be charming in company. Although a monster Geryon could be charming in company.
Anne Carson quotes: Hegel on sacrifice. The animal dies. The man becomes alert. Hegel on sacrifice. The animal dies. The man becomes alert.
Anne Carson quotes: To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
Anne Carson quotes: Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake. Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
Anne Carson quotes: He stood against the wind and let it peel himclean He stood against the wind and let it peel him
clean
Anne Carson quotes: One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation. One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
Anne Carson quotes: 26. Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia. 26. Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.

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