We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONMaybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
ANNE CARSONOne of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSONIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONThey were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSONDesire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSONEach night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
ANNE CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONWhen I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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 CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONExistence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
ANNE CARSONMadness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSON