Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Anand Thakur
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSONMeanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONI’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 CARSONEverything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSONLove is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
ANNE CARSONLife pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSONWe participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONThey were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONLove dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONIt is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSONThose nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
ANNE CARSONThe self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ANNE CARSON