"Consider incompleteness as a verb."

-- Anne Carson

“The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
“So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sisterâ€™s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. Whatâ€™s wrong with me?”
“Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.”
“Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.”
“Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.”
“No place is a place until it has found its poet.”
“This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.”

Source : Nina Simone, Stephen Cleary (1993). “I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone”, New York : Da Capo Press
“I've been at the place where it seems like the only way left is down.”

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