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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.
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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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.
Anne Carson
Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
Anne Carson
There is no person without a world.
Anne Carson
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
Anne Carson
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
Anne Carson
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
Anne Carson
M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
Anne Carson
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
Anne Carson
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
Anne Carson
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
Anne Carson
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
Anne Carson
I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
Anne Carson
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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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
Anne Carson
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.
Anne Carson
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
Anne Carson
Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
Anne Carson
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
Anne Carson
Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
Anne Carson
