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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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City of Toronto
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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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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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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Desire is no light thing.
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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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DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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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Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
Anne Carson
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
Anne Carson
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
Anne Carson
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
Anne Carson
At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.
Anne Carson
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
