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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

Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Anand Thakur
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
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
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
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
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
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Anand Thakur

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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