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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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There is no person without a world.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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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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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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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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