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

Anne Carson

Maybe 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 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
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
ANNE CARSON

Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
ANNE CARSON

Eat Habit Man Mom Talk Yourself
We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
There is no person without a world.
ANNE CARSON

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

Anand Thakur
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
ANNE CARSON

Necessary Need
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSON

Arrival Man Move Time Willing
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON

Power Word Yourself
Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSON

Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
You 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 CARSON

Desire Double Gold Love Madness Marriage Rule
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
ANNE CARSON

Incomplete One Liner Verb

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