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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

Anne Carson

Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
Under the seams runs the pain.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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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 refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

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