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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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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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There is no person without a world.
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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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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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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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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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 is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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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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he stood against the wind and let it peel him clean
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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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