The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Anand Thakur
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSONHe came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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 CARSONWords bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSONUp against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSONTo 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 CARSONWe participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONAristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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 CARSONWhy does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
ANNE CARSONTime isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
ANNE CARSONLove is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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