They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONNo need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
ANNE CARSONTo live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSONHomer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
ANNE CARSONYou 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 CARSONAristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
ANNE CARSONAt least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
ANNE CARSONReality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSONTo be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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 CARSONHere we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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 CARSONMaking is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
ANNE CARSONIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSON