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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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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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