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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Anne Carson

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Accident Body Burn Fear Language
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Eat Habit Man Mom Talk Yourself
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Anand Thakur

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

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