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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

Anne Carson

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ANNE CARSON

Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSON

Difficult Interval Poet
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
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

Anand Thakur
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSON

Himself Known Oneself Try
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSON

Journey Necessary Time
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

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