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Inspirational Quotes by Anne Carson
- Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
- Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
- To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
- It is for God to fix the time who knows no time,
- Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
- I never had much education in English poetry as such,
- Consider incompleteness as a verb.
- No one will ever make necessity not happen.
- We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
- It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it…
- Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
- Under the seams runs the pain.
- Desire is no light thing.
- When I desire you a part of me is gone...
- Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
- Caught between the tongue and the taste.
- Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
- Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
- He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
- He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
- M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
- Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
- The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
- I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
- he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento