Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
ANNE CARSON
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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’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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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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There is no person without a world.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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