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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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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
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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 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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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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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There is no person without a world.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan
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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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