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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.

Anne Carson

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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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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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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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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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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Desire Double Gold Love Madness Marriage Rule
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.

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