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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
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Valued
Blindness
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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 for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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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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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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