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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

"Anne Carson's Poetry Collection 'Float' In Unconventional Medium To Suit The Message". Interview with Scott Simon, kacu.org. October 22, 2016.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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

Anne Carson (2000). “Plainwater: essays and poetry”, Vintage Books

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

Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.17, Vintage

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.35, Vintage

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.35, Vintage

Desire is no light thing.

Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

"Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera". Book by Anne Carson, www.newyorker.com. 2005.

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 (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.31, Vintage