Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
ANNE CARSONMeanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
ANNE CARSONExistence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
ANNE CARSONIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
ANNE CARSONThey were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONMadness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSONWhy does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
ANNE CARSONNo need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
ANNE CARSONTo be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSONI 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 CARSONIt is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSONA refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSON