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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.
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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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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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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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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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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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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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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