Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Anand Thakur
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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