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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.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Acceptance, Thinking

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• I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.

  Anne Carson

  Space, Want, Opinion

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• I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

  Anne Carson

  Mean, Expression, Starting Over

  "The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

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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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  Teacher, School, Years

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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.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Drawing, Scary

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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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  Want, Facts, Different

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• There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.

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  Thinking, Always Trying, Greek

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

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• You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

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  Mind, Use, Movement

  Anne Carson (2015). “Plainwater: Essays and Poetry”, p.29, Vintage

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• DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.

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  Husband, Fighting, Law

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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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  Doubt, Credit, Divine

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

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• Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition

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  Definitions, Procedures, Humans

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

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• The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.

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  Morning, Thinking, Greek

  "Anne Carson's Poetry Collection 'Float' In Unconventional Medium To Suit The Message". Interview with Scott Simon, listen.sdpb.org. October 22, 2016.

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• I never had much education in English poetry as such.

  Anne Carson

  English Poetry

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• Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

  Anne Carson

  Love Is, Fake, Distrust

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