Desire is no light thing.
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Anand Thakur
Desire is no light thing.
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 CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSONI never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONEach night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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 CARSONTo live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSONCould you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
ANNE CARSONSometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
ANNE CARSONAll myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
ANNE CARSONIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSONLava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSON