Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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 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 CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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 CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONDesire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
ANNE CARSONLife pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSONThe self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ANNE CARSONThere is no person without a world.
ANNE CARSONI do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONWhen I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSON