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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

Anne Carson

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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There is no person without a world.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
ANNE CARSON

Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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