He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONMy religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSONIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSONDesire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONThey were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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 CARSONHere we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSONLava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONNo need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
ANNE CARSONSometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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 CARSONThe self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONI never really got over the fun of making letters.
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 CARSON