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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
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City of Toronto
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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.
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There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
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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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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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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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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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You used to say. Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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