Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
ANNE CARSONMadness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSONMy religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSONTo be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
ANNE CARSONAt least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
ANNE CARSONYou used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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 CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONOne of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSONThey were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONIt is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
ANNE CARSONExistence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
ANNE CARSONHere we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSONLove dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSON