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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

Anne Carson

I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
ANNE CARSON

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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
ANNE CARSON

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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSON

Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
You 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

Anand Thakur
Myths 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 CARSON

Anand Thakur
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
ANNE CARSON

Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
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 CARSON

Eat Habit Man Mom Talk Yourself
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
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

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