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Anne Carson Quotes

Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion Picture Quote #1

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing Picture Quote #1

I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they’re both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that’s almost happening, never quite totally happening Picture Quote #1

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, both physical life and emotional life Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains Picture Quote #1

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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies Picture Quote #1

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between Picture Quote #1

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love Picture Quote #1

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am Picture Quote #1

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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me Picture Quote #1

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public Picture Quote #1

They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid Picture Quote #1

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me Picture Quote #1

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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing Picture Quote #1

We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy Picture Quote #1

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 into a thing that carries itself Picture Quote #1

You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough Picture Quote #1

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together Picture Quote #1

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind Picture Quote #1

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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake Picture Quote #1

While the shadows like long fingers over the haystacks that sweep past keep shocking him because he is riding backwards Picture Quote #1

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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion (Anne Carson Quotes) Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing (Anne Carson Quotes) I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they’re both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that’s almost happening, never quite totally happening (Anne Carson Quotes) 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, both physical life and emotional life (Anne Carson Quotes) 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 Quotes) A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains (Anne Carson Quotes) All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies (Anne Carson Quotes) The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between (Anne Carson Quotes) What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning (Anne Carson Quotes) 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 Quotes) Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love (Anne Carson Quotes) Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am (Anne Carson Quotes) I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me (Anne Carson Quotes) Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public (Anne Carson Quotes) They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics (Anne Carson Quotes) 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 Quotes) I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid (Anne Carson Quotes) I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me (Anne Carson Quotes) Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing (Anne Carson Quotes) We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy (Anne Carson Quotes) 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 into a thing that carries itself (Anne Carson Quotes) You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough (Anne Carson Quotes) It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together (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 (Anne Carson Quotes) Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake (Anne Carson Quotes) While the shadows like long fingers over the haystacks that sweep past keep shocking him because he is riding backwards (Anne Carson Quotes)

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