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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

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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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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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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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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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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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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
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