I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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 CARSONTime isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
ANNE CARSONIt is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSONI never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSONThey were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONTo live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSONUp against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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 CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONWe’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 CARSONThose nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
ANNE CARSONLove is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSON