Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
ANNE CARSON
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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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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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