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.
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. - Anne Carson
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
- Anne Carson
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 is an index of… - Anne Carson
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 is an index of…
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling. - Anne Carson
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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
You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence. - Anne Carson
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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 perfe… - Anne Carson
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 perfe…
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. - Anne Carson
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation. - Anne Carson
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do. - Anne Carson
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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