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I never had much education in English poetry as such.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
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City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
English
Poetry
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I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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