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Lava bread makes you passionate.

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
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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