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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Anne Carson

Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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Anand Thakur
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
Under the seams runs the pain.
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Anand Thakur
Desire is no light thing.
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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
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Arrival Man Move Time Willing
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
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation 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
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time

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