He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Anand Thakur
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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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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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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There is no person without a world.
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