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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.

Anne Carson

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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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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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
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.

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