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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
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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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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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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Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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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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You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, where can I put it down?
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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There is no person without a world.
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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. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
Anne Carson
he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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