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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.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
Verses
Immortal
Central
Affair
Suddenly
Blacken
Begin
Midway
Youth
Seduced
Thinking
Verse

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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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 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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