Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSON
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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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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