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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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Literary Critic
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City of Toronto
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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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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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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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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