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girlaltar:

anne carson sentence starters.

quotes are all taken from various poems and essays by the queen of aesthetes, anne carson. feel free to change pronouns/add things/etc if needed.

  • ‘ you are not a god. ’
  • ‘ we begin in the dark and birth is the death of us. ’
  • ‘ now you’ve crowned yourself one final perfect time. ’
  • ‘ [ name ] was a monster. everything about him was red. ’
  • ‘ what are we made of but hunger and rage? ’
  • ‘ i finally decided that understanding isn’t what grief is about. ’
  • ‘ honey is the sleep of the just. ’
  • ‘ it is perilous to live past the end of your myth. ’
  • ‘ you remember too much. ’
  • ‘ when i desire you a part of me is gone. ’
  • ‘ humans in love are terrible. ’
  • ‘ under the seams runs the pain. ’
  • ‘ men know almost nothing about desire. ’
  • ‘ sex is a substitute, like money or language. ’
  • ‘ what is the holiness of conversation? ’
  • ‘ —you burn me. ’
  • ‘ i ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way. ’
  • ‘ sometimes i just want to stop seeing. ’
  • ‘ we’re all mortal, you know. ’
  • ‘ i am the shape you made me. filth teaches filth. ’
  • ‘ why does tragedy exist? ’
  • ‘ you’re a beauty. ’
  • ‘ madness and witchery are conditions commonly associated with the female voice. ’
  • ‘ it made me merciless. ’
  • ‘ desire is no light thing. ’
  • ‘ i do not exist. there is nothing left. ’
  • ‘ gods are stubborn. so am i. ’
  • ‘ we had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal. ’
  • ‘ i am someone who did not die when i should have died. ’
  • ‘ why are you so in love with things unbearable? ’
  • ‘ everything can collapse. ’
  • ‘ someone will remember us. even in another time. ’
  • ‘ my mind is burning. ’
  • ‘ each night, about this time, he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. ’
  • ‘ love does not make me gentle or kind. ’
  • ‘ i can give you reasons not do die. ’
  • ‘ passivity is killing her. ’
  • ‘ they are victims of love, many of them. ’
  • ‘ he is a young god. ’
  • ‘ you touch my soul, you pain my mind. ’
  • ‘ it’s something of a cliché to say that we all think we’re monsters. ’
  • ‘ i fear your sorrows make your tongue grow wild. ’
  • ‘ it’s what they call ‘ecstasy’. ’
  • ‘ a man who can’t die is no tragic hero. ’ 
  • ‘ i want everything. ’
  • ‘ it was like a beautiful dance where your partner turns and stabs you to death. ’
  • ‘ to survive you need an edge. ’
  • ‘ girls are cruelest to themselves. ’
  • ‘ we are dust. ’

bonus! further quotations from award-winning poet and author anne carson:

  • ‘ i am a philosopher of sandwiches. ’
  • ‘ pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire. ’
  • ‘ english is a bitch. ’
  • ‘ i wish i were two dogs. then i could play with me. ’
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