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Anne Carson

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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Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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Anand Thakur
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
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
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Anand Thakur
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Anand Thakur
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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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
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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

Under the seams runs the pain.

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