It 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 CARSON

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It 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.

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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

ANNE CARSON

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
ANNE CARSON

Arrival Delight
Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

ANNE CARSON

Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

ANNE CARSON

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSON

Pursue
Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

ANNE CARSON

Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
You 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 CARSON

You 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 CARSON

Double
Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.

ANNE CARSON

Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

ANNE CARSON

Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

ANNE CARSON

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
I never really got over the fun of making letters.

ANNE CARSON

I never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
I never had much education in English poetry as such.

ANNE CARSON

I never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSON
I 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 CARSON

I 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 CARSON

Anand Thakur
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.

ANNE CARSON

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

ANNE CARSON

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSON
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

ANNE CARSON

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

ANNE CARSON

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSON

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