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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.

Anne Carson

You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Desire Double Gold Love Madness Marriage Rule
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
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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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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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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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
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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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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