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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

Under the seams runs the pain.
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Anand Thakur
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Desire Double Gold Love Madness Marriage Rule
You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
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
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Anand Thakur

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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