The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Anand Thakur
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ANNE CARSONYou can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
ANNE CARSONLava bread makes you passionate.
ANNE CARSONEverything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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 CARSONWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
ANNE CARSONWe humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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 CARSONWhen I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSONEach night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
ANNE CARSONA refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSONHe stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSONDesire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSONConsider incompleteness as a verb.
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 CARSONI never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSON