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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Anne Carson

Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Anand Thakur
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
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
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
There is no person without a world.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Anand Thakur
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Anand Thakur
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

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