Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Anand Thakur
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSONTo live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSONI am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
ANNE CARSONUp against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONThe self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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 CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
ANNE CARSONWe are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
ANNE CARSONWhen an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONLife pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSONMaking is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
ANNE CARSONHere we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSON