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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
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Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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