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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Anand Thakur
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Anand Thakur
Under the seams runs the pain.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
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
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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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
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
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
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time

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