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

Anne Carson

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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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
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
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
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
ANNE CARSON

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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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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSON

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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

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

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