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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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Literary Critic
Poet
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City of Toronto
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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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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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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