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

Anne Carson

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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.

ANNE CARSON

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it’s more scary to draw. It’s more revealing. You can’t disguise yourself in drawing.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

ANNE CARSON

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.

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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur
You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?

ANNE CARSON

You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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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

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.
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Anand Thakur
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.

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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
When I desire you a part of me is gone.

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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

ANNE CARSON

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Anand Thakur
Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.

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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Arrival Move Willing
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

ANNE CARSON

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

ANNE CARSON

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Anand Thakur
Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

ANNE CARSON

Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

ANNE CARSON

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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