Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSONI never really got over the fun of making letters.
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 CARSONWe humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
ANNE CARSONOne of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSONUp against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSONAll human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
ANNE CARSONTo be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
ANNE CARSONEach night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
ANNE CARSONThere is no person without a world.
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 CARSONThe self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
ANNE CARSONComfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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 CARSON