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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

Anne Carson

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
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Anand Thakur
Desire is no light thing.
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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
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
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
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
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

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