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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

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
Anne
Voice
Bestiality
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Witchery
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Female
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Desire is no light thing.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
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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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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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