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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
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
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Writer
City of Toronto
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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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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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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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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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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