When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSON
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSON
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
ANNE CARSON
You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
ANNE CARSON
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSON
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
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
ANNE CARSON
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSON
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
ANNE CARSON
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
ANNE CARSON
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
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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 symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
ANNE CARSON
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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