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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.

Anne Carson

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Anne Carson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 21
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I was more worn out with the Odyssey than it was with the Iliad. I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the Iliad is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the Odyssey is more comfortable, even for us.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.
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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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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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I never had much education in English poetry as such.
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