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 CARSONYou 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 CARSONSimply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
ANNE CARSONWhat is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
ANNE CARSONUnder the seams runs the pain.
ANNE CARSONCaught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSONOne of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSONUp against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSONSometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSONThey were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
ANNE CARSONCould you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
ANNE CARSONMadness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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 CARSONNo need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
ANNE CARSONA man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSONLife pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSONPhilosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSON