Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Anand Thakur
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSONComfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSONI 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 CARSONThe self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ANNE CARSONWe participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONDesire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONWhy does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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 CARSONIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
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 CARSONExistence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
ANNE CARSONWhat makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
ANNE CARSON