It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSON
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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 humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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