It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSONAristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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 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 CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSONTime isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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 CARSONReality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSONEach night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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 CARSONWords bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSONI am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSON