Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
“Paradox is what takes shape on the sensitized plate of the poem, a negative image from which positive pictures can be created. Whether apprehended as a dilemma of sensation, action or value, eros prints as the same contradictory fact: love and hate converge within erotic desire.
Why?”
Anne Carson | Eros the Bittersweet