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

Anne Carson

There is no person without a world.
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Anand Thakur
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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
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
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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Anand Thakur
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Accident Body Burn Fear Language
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
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Anand Thakur
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
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb

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

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