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Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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Literary Critic
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City of Toronto
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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I don't know that we really think any thoughts we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
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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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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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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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There is no person without a world.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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