It is when you are asking about something that you realize … - Anne Carson

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It 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

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Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, and professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.

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I prayed and fasted. I read the mystics. I studied the martyrs. I began to think I was someone thirsting for God.

to carry one's own door will make a person
clumsy, tired and strange
on the other hand, it may come in useful
if you go places that don't have an obvious way in, like normality
or an obvious way out, like the classic double bind

Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life,
it's just catastrophe.

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