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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

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
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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