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1 " In myth, women's boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is penetrated, she suffers metamorphoses. The women of mythology regularly lose their form in monstrosity. "
― Anne Carson , Men in the Off Hours
2 " As tree shapes from mist / Her young death / Loose / In you. "
3 " NighthawksI wanted to run away with you tonightbut you are a difficult womanthe rules of you - Past and future circle round usnow we know more now lessin the institute of shadows.On a street black as widowswith nothing to confessour distances found usthe rules of you - so difficult a womanI wanted to run away with you tonight. "
4 " What is a Lamb of God? People use this phrase.I don't know.I watch my sister, fingers straying absently about her mustache,no help there. "
5 " Campaign Against Akhmatova Begins (1922)She ran from lamppost to lamppost, the wind slammed.Trotsky reviewed her in Pravda: One reads with dismay...and an unofficial Communist Party resolution banned her poetry (1925).She didn't notice, didn't know what a Communist Party was in those days.Fog choked the city.Russia's great poets were all about 35 years olScraggly trees wandered by the canal in dim sun. "
6 " détailsAll the same there are some small questions one would like to put to Sokrates. Or better still Sappho. Avec tes mains brûlées. "
7 " After all why study the past? Because you may wish to repeat it. "
8 " There is something you should know.And the right way to know itis by a cherrying of your mind. "
