Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
ANNE CARSON
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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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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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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 am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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