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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

Anne Carson

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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Power Word Yourself
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

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