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

Anne Carson

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
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
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
There is no person without a world.
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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
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Anand Thakur
Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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Anand Thakur
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Necessary Need
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
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
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Anand Thakur
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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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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