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I never had much education in English poetry as such.

Anne Carson

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Anand Thakur
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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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
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSON

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
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Anand Thakur
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Anand Thakur
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Anand Thakur

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