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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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Literary Critic
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Writer
City of Toronto
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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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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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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Desire is no light thing.
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There is no person without a world.
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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 makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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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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I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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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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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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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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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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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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