It’s in the telling

The ever delightful Anne Carson on why you must authentically voice the unsaid thing:

If you are not the free person you want to be you must find a place to tell the truth about that. To tell how things go for you. Candor is like a skein being produced inside the belly day after day, it has to get itself woven out somewhere. You could whisper down a well. You could write a letter and keep it in a drawer. You could inscribe a curse on a ribbon of lead and bury it in the ground to lie unread for thousands of years. The point is not to find a reader, the point is the telling itself.

- Anne Carson, Candor, A poem made for Roni Horn out of the titles of five of her sculptures, Could 1, 1 July 2011, in Bomb Magazine

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