It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSON
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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There is no person without a world.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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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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