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I never really got over the fun of making letters.

Anne Carson

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Anand Thakur
We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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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
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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
I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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
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.
ANNE CARSON

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
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality

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