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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
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
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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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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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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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You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, where can I put it down?
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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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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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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