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Anne Carson

Under the seams runs the pain.
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Anand Thakur
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Anand Thakur
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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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
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
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.
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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
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.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
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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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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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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