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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.

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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Desire is no light thing.
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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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There is no person without a world.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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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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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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