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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.

Anne Carson

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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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Power Word Yourself
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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