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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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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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.
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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 stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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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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M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
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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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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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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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