Jun 29, 2025
Jeanne Mammen, Sphinx und Chimäre, 1910-1914
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“[T]his is the magic of fragments—the way that poem breaks off leads into a thought that can’t ever be apprehended. There is the space where a thought would be, but which you can’t get hold of. I love that space. It’s the reason I like to deal with fragments. Because no matter what the thought would be if it were fully worked out, it wouldn’t be as good as the suggestion of a thought that the space gives you.”
—Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry No. 88, The Paris Review
