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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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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.
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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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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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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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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Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.
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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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