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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.

Anne Carson

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Anand Thakur
At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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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
Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
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
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Anand Thakur
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSON

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

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.

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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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