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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Anne Carson

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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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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Power Word Yourself
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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Desire is no light thing.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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