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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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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There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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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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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
Anne Carson
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
Anne Carson
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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