Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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