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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
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City of Toronto
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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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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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, where can I put it down?
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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There is no person without a world.
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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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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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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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 refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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