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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

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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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Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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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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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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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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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.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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