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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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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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Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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 never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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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. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
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