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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
Anne Carson
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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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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.
Anne Carson
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
Anne Carson
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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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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