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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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Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
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Writer
City of Toronto
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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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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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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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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You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, where can I put it down?
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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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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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