Carl Phillips

Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow.

— Carl Phillips

“Domestic If, when studying road atlases while taking, as you call it, your morning dump, you shout down to me names like…

— Carl Phillips

“Will it be salt or late light that it melts like?”

— 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…

— Carl Phillips

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

— Carl Phillips

“When was the burning that of fire? When was it fear? When sorrow? That any gesture can be understood as the necessary,…

— Carl Phillips

“The sea/the same then as now: more blear than blue, more/blue than silver”

— Carl Phillips

.....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.

— Carl Phillips

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

— Carl Phillips