All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Anand Thakur
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
ANNE CARSON
I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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