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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

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
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Anand Thakur
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
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
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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
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
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
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Anand Thakur
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

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