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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
Arrived
Delightful
Moment
Hope
Living
Breathlessly
Running
Bittersweet
Moments
Eros
Suspended

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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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