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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Anne Carson

Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Accident Body Burn Fear Language
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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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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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

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