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
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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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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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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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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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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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