I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Anand Thakur
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSONWhat makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
ANNE CARSONTo be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
ANNE CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONTo live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSONI mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
ANNE CARSONMadness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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 CARSONYou can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
ANNE CARSONWe participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONThe words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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 CARSON