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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
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City of Toronto
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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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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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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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'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 doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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