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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
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City of Toronto
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
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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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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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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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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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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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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
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