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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

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
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Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
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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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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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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. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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