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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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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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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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