Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONSometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSONLava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONIt 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 CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSONReality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONMadness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSONNo need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
ANNE CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONYou remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
ANNE CARSONI mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
ANNE CARSONWhen I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSONMaybe 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 CARSONLife pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSON