DESIRE is not enough; in fact, ignorant desire frustrates itself or burns itself away. For desire to be consummated, for the opus to come to fruition – in art, in love, in practice of any sort – learn all you can about its fire: its radiance, its flickering instability, its warmth, and its rage. Fire as element below and above the range of human reason …
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