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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

Anne Carson

Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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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
Under the seams runs the pain.
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Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
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
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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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
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
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
Desire is no light thing.
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Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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Creation Poetry

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