All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Anand Thakur
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
ANNE CARSONThey were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONSometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
ANNE CARSONOne of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSONGive me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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 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 CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
ANNE CARSONIt is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSONThe words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
ANNE CARSONThe man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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