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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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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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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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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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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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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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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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 an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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.
Anne Carson
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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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
Anne Carson
