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I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.
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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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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I was more worn out with the Odyssey than it was with the Iliad. I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the Iliad is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the Odyssey is more comfortable, even for us.
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Desire is no light thing.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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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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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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