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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

Anne Carson

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Accident Body Burn Fear Language
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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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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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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Anand Thakur
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

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