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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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You used to say. Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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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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