Anne Carson

Anne Carson

Poet

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet and essayist known for her innovative works that blend poetry, prose, and classical themes, particularly in 'Autobiography of Red'.

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Born
June 21, 1950
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114
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#1503

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"A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space."

Thinking Differences Space
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"It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself."

Fashion Asking Realizing
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"Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world."

Winter Eyelashes Hands
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"Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty."

Self Poverty Dare
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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."

Teacher School Years
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"What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away."

Cutting Orange Quota
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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-"

Gold Earth Matter
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"M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more"

Smart Blindness Very Smart
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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."

Mean Two Patterns
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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."

Mean Two Odyssey
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"Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing."

Writing Sadness Night
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"Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller."

Epic Sound Pressure
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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."

Thinking Always Trying Greek
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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."

Mean Expression Starting Over
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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."

Want Facts Different
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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."

Space Want Opinion
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