Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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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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