I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Anand Thakur
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSONReality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONWhy does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
ANNE CARSONIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSONComfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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 CARSONEach night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
ANNE CARSONMeanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
ANNE CARSONLife pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSONIt is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSONHomer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
ANNE CARSONA refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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 CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONWe humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
ANNE CARSON