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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
Anne Carson
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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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I was more worn out with the Odyssey than it was with the Iliad. I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the Iliad is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the Odyssey is more comfortable, even for us.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
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