Carole Maso Quotes & Sayings

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

And she smiles and she utters unearthly things and she utters not in any known language, in stars and pain, pulque she says I am devouring time and the earth — Carole Maso

But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars. — Carole Maso

Here, we turn everything into art. — Carole Maso

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain
rigor and recklessness
simultaneously. — Carole Maso

You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me. — Carole Maso

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

So little goes with the body of a man. So much is left behind. — Carole Maso

In the calm violence of your being, desire. — Carole Maso

your head is flowers, your body the body of a deer, pierced — Carole Maso

Truth be told, there is not one day that goes by when I don't fall in love with someone, with something. — Carole Maso

Huddled around the fire of the alphabet... — Carole Maso

You were a painting by Matisse, but you took sleeping pills. — Carole Maso

The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again. — Carole Maso

I believe in books. — Carole Maso

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

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

As if thought were not our most passionate, our most ardent aspect. — Carole Maso

This book is an invention, an act of the imagination, and in no way should be mistaken for reality, the place where much good invention originates. — Carole Maso

I weep flowers, I weep song, I bleed — Carole Maso

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

One loves art more than life; it's better than life, don't you think, Ali? It doesn't disappoint so," she sighed. "It's not so frightening," she said, her eyes filled with terror. — Carole Maso

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