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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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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 for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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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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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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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.
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