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I never really got over the fun of making letters.

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
Anne
Letters
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Making
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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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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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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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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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I don't know that we really think any thoughts we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
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There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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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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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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