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Anne Carson

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
ANNE CARSON

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
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
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
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
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
At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

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