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There is no person without a world.

Anne Carson

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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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
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Anand Thakur
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
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
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
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
Under the seams runs the pain.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Anand Thakur
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
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Anand Thakur

There is no person without a world.

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