Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Anand Thakur
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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