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

Anne Carson

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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSON

Cleaning Himself Wind
There is no person without a world.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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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
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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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Anand Thakur
I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
ANNE CARSON

Education Myself Poetry

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

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