Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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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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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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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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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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You 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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Desire is no light thing.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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