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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

Anne Carson

I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Anand Thakur
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Anand Thakur
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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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
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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Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

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