“Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.”
More from Anne Carson
“My personal poetry is a failure. I do not want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.”
“Very few women in public life do not worry that their voices are too high or too light or…”
“To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.”
“To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.”