It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Anand Thakur
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSONYou doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
ANNE CARSONMaybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
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 CARSONUp against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONWords bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSONYou 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 CARSONI never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSONLife pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSONI am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
ANNE CARSONLove dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSONIt 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