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Anne Carson

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.
ANNE CARSON

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
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
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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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
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.
ANNE CARSON

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

It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.

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