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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

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
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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