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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Anne Carson

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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Anand Thakur
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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Anand Thakur
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Anand Thakur
There is no person without a world.
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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
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
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Anand Thakur
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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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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