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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Anne Carson

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
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
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
The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Anand Thakur
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Arrival Man Move Time Willing
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
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
There is no person without a world.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
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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Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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
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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Anand Thakur

Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

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