Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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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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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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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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