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The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.

The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.

Carole Maso
Gorgeous, Reckless, Charm
Carole Maso (2000). “Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire”, Counterpoint Press

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

Carole Maso
Writing, Two, Brain

It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.

Carole Maso
Beautiful, Moving, Space

But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.

Carole Maso
Stars, Sky, Looks
Carole Maso (2006). “The Art Lover”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the same time bid me farewell. That is what real love is.

Carole Maso
Real, Farewell, Love Is
Carole Maso (2006). “The Art Lover”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?

Carole Maso
Writing, Suffering, Desire
Carole Maso (2000). “Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire”, Counterpoint Press

After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said -- The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love. And somehow I'm still alive.

Carole Maso
Beautiful, Sex, Coffee

Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something.

Carole Maso
Falling In Love, One Day, Truth Is

Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!

Carole Maso
Wonder, Sprung, Mothering

The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.

Carole Maso
Art, Voice, Rivers

Huddled around the fire of the alphabet.

Carole Maso
Fire, Alphabet
Carole Maso (1997). “Aureole: An Erotic Sequence”, Ecco Press

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