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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
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Letters

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Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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You used to say. Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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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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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.
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I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
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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.
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Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
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