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There is no person without a world.

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
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Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
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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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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.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.
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Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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