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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

Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Anand Thakur
I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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Anand Thakur
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Anand Thakur
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSON

Creation Poetry
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON

Power Word Yourself
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
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Anand Thakur
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Anand Thakur
You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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Anand Thakur
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
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
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Anand Thakur
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
ANNE CARSON

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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