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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.
Anne Carson
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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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