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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

Anne Carson

No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSON

Creation Poetry
I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Anand Thakur
You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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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
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Anand Thakur
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Arrival Man Move Time Willing
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
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
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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Anand Thakur
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

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