Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
ANNE CARSONI never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSONTo live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSONTo be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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 CARSONI don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
ANNE CARSONHere we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSONEach night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSONLava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONMaking is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
ANNE CARSONWe humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
ANNE CARSONMeanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSON