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When I desire you a part of me is gone.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
Part
Gone
Desire

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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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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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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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