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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
Anne Carson
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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
Anne Carson
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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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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I was more worn out with the Odyssey than it was with the Iliad. I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the Iliad is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the Odyssey is more comfortable, even for us.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
Anne Carson
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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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.
Anne Carson
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
Anne Carson
