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I never really got over the fun of making letters.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
Linguist
Literary Critic
Poet
Professor
Translator
Writer
City of Toronto
Carson
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Making
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Never
Letters
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into who knows what dark dream of its own, running both hands all the way down from the base of the neck to the end of the spine which he can cause to shiver like a root in the rain.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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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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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.
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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 do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
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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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