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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Anne Carson

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
Desire is no light thing.
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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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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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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

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