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

Anne Carson

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
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
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
Desire is no light thing.
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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
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
Under the seams runs the pain.
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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
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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
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.
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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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