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

Anne Carson

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Anand Thakur
Desire is no light thing.
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Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Power Word Yourself
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
There is no person without a world.
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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
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Anand Thakur
Under the seams runs the pain.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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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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Anand Thakur
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time

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