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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
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Arrived
Delightful
Moment
Hope
Living
Breathlessly
Running
Bittersweet
Moments
Eros
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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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