firstfullmoon:Anne Carson, from The Art of Poetry No. 88[text ID: INTERVIEWER: There’s another line
firstfullmoon:Anne Carson, from The Art of Poetry No. 88[text ID: INTERVIEWER: There’s another line in “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions”—“I want to be unbearable”—that strikes me as exact and expressive of you as a writer.CARSON: I remember that sentence driving at me in the dark like a glacier. I felt like a ship going toward the South Pole and then all of a sudden a glacier comes zooming out of the dark, and I just took it down. I appreciate that it’s accurate of what I both have and choose to have as my effect on people. I don’t know exactly why that’s the case.] -- source link