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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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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.
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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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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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