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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

Anne Carson

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Eat Habit Man Mom Talk Yourself
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Anand Thakur

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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