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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Anne Carson

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
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
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Anand Thakur
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
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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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

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

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