I used to think when I was younger and writing that each idea had a certain shape and when I started to study Greek and I found the word morphe it was for me just the right word for that, unlike the word shape in English which falls a bit short morphe in greek means the sort of plastic contours that an idea has inside your all your senses when you grasp it the first moment and it always seemed to me that a work should play out that same contour in its form. So I can’t start writing something down til I get a sense of that, that morphe. And then it unfolds, I wouldn’t say naturally, but it unfolds gropingly by keeping only to the contours of that form whatever it is.
Anne CarsonStichwörter: shape
When 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 CarsonAll myth is an enriched pattern,
a two-faced proposition,
allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars.
And from the true lies of poetry
trickled out a question.
What really connects words and things?
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
Anne CarsonStichwörter: poetry sylvia-plath the-maternal
[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let’s buy it what a bargain!
Anne CarsonStichwörter: love poetry essay airplanes shopping
Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Anne CarsonStichwörter: anne autobiography-of-red carson
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
Anne CarsonWhat is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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