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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

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
Delightful
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Hope
Living
Breathlessly
Running
Bittersweet
Moments
Eros
Suspended
Arrived

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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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