You 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.
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You 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 CARSONI never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONA refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSONSometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
ANNE CARSONMyths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
ANNE CARSONWords bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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 CARSONLava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
ANNE CARSONWe participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSON