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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

Anne Carson

Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Power Word Yourself
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
Desire is no light thing.
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Anand Thakur
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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
You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Anand Thakur
Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Anand Thakur
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Anand Thakur
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Anand Thakur
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Anand Thakur
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Anand Thakur
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run

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