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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

Anne Carson

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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Anand Thakur
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Accident Body Burn Fear Language
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Anand Thakur
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Anand Thakur

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

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