Consider incompleteness as a verb.
ANNE CARSONYou can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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