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Desire is no light thing.

Anne Carson

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
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON

Power Word Yourself
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Anand Thakur
There is no person without a world.
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Anand Thakur
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
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Anand Thakur
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Anand Thakur

Desire is no light thing.

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