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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.
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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
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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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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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I don't know that we really think any thoughts we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.
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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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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.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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