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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
Glows
Pulls
Binding
Softly
Dear
Inside
Life
Bindings
Stench

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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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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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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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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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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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