Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.

Anne Carson's Popular Quotes

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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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 perfe…

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

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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

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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…

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

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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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