"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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Source : "Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera". Book by Anne Carson, www.newyorker.com. 2005.

Anne Carson

#Self Quotes #Answers Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.”
“When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.”
“There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.”
“At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.”
“Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.”
“Moving makes you feel all alone inside.”

Source : Barbara Park (2011). “The Kid in the Red Jacket”, p.6, Yearling
“I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.”
“I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.”

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