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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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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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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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You used to say. Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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I was more worn out with the Odyssey than it was with the Iliad. I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the Iliad is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the Odyssey is more comfortable, even for us.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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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 was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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