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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
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Writer
City of Toronto
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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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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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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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 humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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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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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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