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Anne Carson Quotes: 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.
         

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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.



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



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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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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.



You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

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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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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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.



Under the seams runs the pain.

Under the seams runs the pain.



When I desire you a part of me is gone.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.



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





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What don't kill me... Had better start running!



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The good quarterbacks in this league, if you're not playing your best, sometimes will win a game for you



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This page presents the quote "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.". Author of this quote is Anne Carson. This quote is about love, ecstatic, poverty, answers, self,.