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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.

Anne Carson

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
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
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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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
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch

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