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• Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But…
• Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
• As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How…
• A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself…
• I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what…
• To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
• It is for God to fix the time who knows no time,
• A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
• All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
• Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
• I never had much education in English poetry as such,

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