Anne Carson Quotes

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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…
• Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
• As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it…
• 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…
• I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like,…
• To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
• It is for God to fix the time who knows no time,
• A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
• All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
• Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
• I never had much education in English poetry as such,
• What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
• 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…
• Consider incompleteness as a verb.
• No one will ever make necessity not happen.
• Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
• I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
• We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
• 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…

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