I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Anand Thakur
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSONAll human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
ANNE CARSONTime isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSONHe was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSONPoetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSONIt takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONWe humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
ANNE CARSONMy religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSONReality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
ANNE CARSONAristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSONWe’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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 CARSONA page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
ANNE CARSONAll 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 CARSON