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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Anne Carson

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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
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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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
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Anand Thakur
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Accident Body Burn Fear Language
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Anand Thakur
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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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
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
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
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
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

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

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