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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
Fun
Making
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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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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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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 I desire you a part of me is gone.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more
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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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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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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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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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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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Desire is no light thing.
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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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Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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