A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Anand Thakur
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONYou remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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 CARSONSimply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSONIt is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSONIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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 CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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 CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSONIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONLava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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 CARSONLife pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSON