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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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  Song, Drama, Heart

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

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  Burning, Body, Language

  Anne Carson (2000). “Plainwater: essays and poetry”, Vintage Books

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• A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

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  Population, Language, Hungry

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.

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  Block, White, Miracle

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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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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  Hate, Axes, Desire

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan

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  Ocean, Blessed, Night

  Anne Carson (2015). “Antigonick”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

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  Journey, Sometimes

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• No one will ever make necessity not happen.

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  Happens

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• Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

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  Hopeful, Different, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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  Moving, Thinking, Long

  "Magical thinking" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.

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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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  Book, Adventure, Confusing

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• He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.

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  Trying, Fit

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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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  Buddhist, Attitude, Thinking

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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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  People, Want, Assuming

  "An interview with Anne Carson and Robert Currie". Interview with Megan Berkobien, www.asymptotejournal.com.

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• You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

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  Mother, Men, Breakfast

  Anne Carson (2000). “Plainwater: essays and poetry”, Vintage Books

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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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  Life, Glitter, Earth

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• It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.

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  Knows

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• Consider incompleteness as a verb.

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  Verbs, Incompleteness

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.17, Vintage

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• Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

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  Writing, Sadness, Night

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.35, Vintage

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• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

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  Desire, And Love, Madness

  Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.35, Vintage

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• Desire is no light thing.

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  Light, Desire

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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• I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.

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  Drama, Reading, Adventure

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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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  Mean, Two, Odyssey

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

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  Self, Poverty, Dare

  "Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera". Book by Anne Carson, www.newyorker.com. 2005.

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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.

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  Mean, Two, Patterns

  Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.31, Vintage

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