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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
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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
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