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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
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
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Opinion
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Manufacturing
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.
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The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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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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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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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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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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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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