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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

Anne Carson

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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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