Carl Phillips Quotes & Sayings

Cience-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics. — Carl Phillips

The sea/the same then as now: more blear than blue, more/blue than silver — Carl Phillips

Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must. — Carl Phillips

Will it be salt or late light that it melts like? — Carl Phillips

Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow. — Carl Phillips

When was the burning that of fire?
When was it fear?
When sorrow?
That any gesture can be understood as the necessary, mostly incidental price the body pays for whatever response comes
past gesture,
past the body that made it:
to what extent can this be said, and it be true? and it be false? Under what conditions?
Under whose conditions?
Thus the waves. Thus the light of the sun across them. — Carl Phillips

It was then we found ourselves too many fields away from
where we'd meant to be, with regard to desire, to get there
ever, even if - though this was not the case - we'd been
told the way. — Carl Phillips

How they made
out of shamelessness something
beautiful, for as long as they could. — Carl Phillips

As a scar commemorates what happened, so is memory but itself a scar. — Carl Phillips