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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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Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
Poetry
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Much
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English

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I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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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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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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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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Desire is no light thing.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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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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