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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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Blindness
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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