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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Anne Carson

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
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Anand Thakur
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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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
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
Desire is no light thing.
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Anand Thakur
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
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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Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Eat Habit Man Mom Talk Yourself
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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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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Anand Thakur

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

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