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Anne Carson

Canadian Poet

Born: Jun 21, 1950

Every Life Me People Think Writing

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We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy. Anne Carson

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves. Anne Carson

World Creation Ourselves Participate

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. Anne Carson

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. Anne Carson

Me Think Imitate Way Say About Something Poets Push Towards Attracts Always Metaphor Density Greek Trying Really Use English

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. Anne Carson

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

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

Good You Yourself Writing Disguise Draw Drawer Drawing Scary More Could Had Revealing Been Did Done Maybe Much

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. Anne Carson

Life Teacher Me School My Life Accident Year Lunch Way High High School Main Knew Main Thing Hour She Learn Because Greek Offered Did Informal Then Teach Thing Started Last University Last Year

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