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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
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Men
Theory
Woman
Comes
Death

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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
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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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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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