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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

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
Desire is no light thing.
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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
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
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
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Anand Thakur
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Anand Thakur
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSON

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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