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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

Anne Carson

Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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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
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

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