Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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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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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.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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