Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Anand Thakur
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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