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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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City of Toronto
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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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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DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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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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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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Desire is no light thing.
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I don't know that we really think any thoughts we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
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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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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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