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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
Theory
Woman
Comes
Death
Men

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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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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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