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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
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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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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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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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