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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

Anne Carson

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Anand Thakur
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
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
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
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
Under the seams runs the pain.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Anand Thakur

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

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