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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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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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