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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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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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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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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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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 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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