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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Anne Carson

Desire is no light thing.
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Anand Thakur
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Anand Thakur
There is no person without a world.
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Anand Thakur
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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
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
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Anand Thakur
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
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
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

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

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