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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

Anne Carson

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSON

Help Myself Pursue Religion
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSON

Journey Necessary Time
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
ANNE CARSON

Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
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 CARSON

Eat Habit Man Mom Talk Yourself
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
ANNE CARSON

Arrival Man Move Time Willing
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Simply 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 CARSON

Anand Thakur
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
ANNE CARSON

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 CARSON

Anand Thakur

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