A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
ANNE CARSON
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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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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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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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