A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Anand Thakur
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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 CARSONThere is no person without a world.
ANNE CARSONI am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
ANNE CARSONNo one will ever make necessity not happen.
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 CARSONWe participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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 CARSONWe humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSONLove dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSONReality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSON