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Caught between the tongue and the taste.

Anne Carson

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Anand Thakur
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Anand Thakur
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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Anand Thakur
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Anand Thakur
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Anand Thakur
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

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