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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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There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
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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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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
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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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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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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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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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I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
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There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
Anne Carson