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Anne Carson

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Anand Thakur
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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Anand Thakur
You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Desire Double Gold Love Madness Marriage Rule
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Eat Habit Man Mom Talk Yourself
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
Under the seams runs the pain.
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Anand Thakur
Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Anand Thakur
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
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

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

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