The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love … - Anne Carson

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We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

Anne Carson

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.

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

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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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