Carole Maso Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Carole Maso

  Wonder, Sprung, Mothering

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• 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

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• Huddled around the fire of the alphabet.

  Carole Maso

  Fire, Alphabet

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

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