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

Anne Carson

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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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
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
There is no person without a world.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Anand Thakur
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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
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
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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Anand Thakur
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
Desire is no light thing.
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Anand Thakur
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
Under the seams runs the pain.
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Anand Thakur
Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
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
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
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

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

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