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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Anne Carson

Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
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
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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Anand Thakur
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Anand Thakur
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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
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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Anand Thakur
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
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

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