Anne Carson Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: June 21, 1950

Topics

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Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.

Jimmy Cliff

MusicWritingSongThinkSomeone

Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.

Andy Dunn

Monkeys

One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.

John Cho

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I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.

John Ortberg

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I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

Stan Wawrinka

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There are a few 'Raw Shark Texts' tattoos floating around the Internet now, so I'm gathering them up to post on my forum. It's a strange thought, knowing that readers are tattooing themselves with something I've created, but it feels wonderful to have added something that people care about to the world.

Steven Hall

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In the press, it has been said that I ran a foreclosure machine.

Steve Mnuchin

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Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

Robbie Coltrane

PowerChildrenParentingMeBelieve

The more I think about the Olympics, even from afar, its mere concept stuns me. I can't think of any other line of work where, every four years, people gather to be ranked one, two, and three, then are more or less told to evaporate until the next go-around.

Mary Pilon

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I was going to go be an auto mechanic.

Milo Ventimiglia

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I don't watch a great deal of television because I don't have a television, and I don't have a huge catalog of films that I've watched, either.

Lucy Griffiths

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That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

Don Yaeger

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