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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

Anne Carson

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
Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
ANNE CARSON

Creation 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
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
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
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
ANNE CARSON

Help Myself Pursue Religion
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.
ANNE CARSON

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
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
ANNE CARSON

Incomplete One Liner Verb
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Anand Thakur
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Anand Thakur
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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