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Sharing one of my favorite poems since childhood. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, who was sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief. Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides #everynightapoem
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Like the terrestrial crust of the earth which is proportionately ten times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul is a miracle of mutual pressures. -Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red ["Earthrise" from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders 12/24/1968] #EarthDay
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This is excruciating. Anne Carson on writing with Parkinson’s
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‘I say to myself, it’s just a matter of attention; turn the page, pay attention, try again. I try again; I am wrong. Life slips one more notch towards barbarity.’ Anne Carson on trying to write with Parkinson’s: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n16/…

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So,​ your life. There it is before you – possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map – let’s say you’re...

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Accidental Self Portrait (bedroom shelf, late afternoon light) with Anne Carson
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen12 Mar 2020
War creates two categories of persons: those who outlive it and those who don’t. Both carry wounds. -Anne Carson (from Norma Jeane Baker of Troy) #everynightapoem #ofsorts
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen21 Dec 2019
“A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone else's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. Let us see who controls the danger.” (looted from) Anne Carson #everynightapoem #ofsorts
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen14 Feb 2019
to which Ashbery after a very long pause replied, ‘Light. What would we do without it?’ -Anne Carson, from “Short Talk on Homer and John Ashbery” newyorker.com/magazine/2018/… #everynightapoem
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119 cloth dripping -Sappho fragment trans. Anne Carson #everynightapoem
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen25 Dec 2018
“Philosophic Problems. ‘I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.’” -Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red #everynightapoem #ofsorts
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen8 Dec 2018
What is erotic about reading (or writing) is the play of imagination called forth in the space between you and your object of knowledge. Poets and novelists, like lovers, touch that space to life with their metaphors and subterfuge. -Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen8 Dec 2018
In letters as in love,to imagine is to address oneself to what is not. To write words I put a symbol in place of an absent sound. -Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet #everynightapoem #ofsorts
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen8 Dec 2018
"Your absence from the syntax of my life is not a fact to be changed by written words." -Anne Carson on Archilochus, in Eros the Bittersweet #everynightapoem #ofsorts
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen3 Dec 2018
I don't know what to do two states of mind in me -Sappho trans. Anne Carson #everynightapoem
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen25 Oct 2018
prose is a house poetry a man in flames running / quite fast through it -Anne Carson, red doc > #everynightapoem
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen24 Oct 2018
To feel anything deranges you. -Anne Carson, red doc > (@AAKnopf, 2013) #everynightapoem #fragment
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen26 Aug 2018
“I’m saying I started over. Proust is an education in the language of Proust.” Anne Carson interviews are a performance art. believermag.com/a-microinter…
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen26 Aug 2018
someone will remember us I say even in another time -Sappho fragment trans. Anne Carson #everynightapoem
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“Sumptuous destitution” from Anne Carson, ‘Men in the Off Hours’ #everynightapoem
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How do people / get power over one another? is an algebraic question / -Anne Carson
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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen23 Jun 2018
‘Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.’ Madness doubled is marriage I added -Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband #everynightapoem
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