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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

Anne Carson

A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSON

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
Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
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
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

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