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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

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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City of Toronto
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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.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, where can I put it down?
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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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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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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.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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