All human desire is poised on ...

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

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
 Anne Carson
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
 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?
 Anne Carson
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