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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Anne Carson

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Anand Thakur
You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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
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
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
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
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Anand Thakur
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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
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
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

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