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No one will ever make necessity not happen.

Anne Carson

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
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
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Anand Thakur
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Education Myself Poetry
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry
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
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

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