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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

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
Carson
Anne
Gets
Stop
Existence
Beauty

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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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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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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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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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We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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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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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.
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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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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