To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Anand Thakur
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
ANNE CARSONIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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 CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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 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 CARSONComfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSONI’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
ANNE CARSONYou can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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 CARSONIt is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSONDesire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSON