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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.

Anne Carson

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Anand Thakur
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
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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Anand Thakur
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
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
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Anand Thakur
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON

Power Word Yourself
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Anand Thakur
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
ANNE CARSON

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
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality

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