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About Anne Carson

Anne Carson was a contemporary Canadian poet and academic. Anne Patricia Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave
  • Happiness — Thoughts on finding joy, contentment, and fulfilment
  • Life — Reflections on the meaning, challenges, and beauty of life
  • Sadness — Navigating grief, melancholy, and emotional depth

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“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
— Anne Carson
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“Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”
— Anne Carson
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“He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.”
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“XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud”
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“Now every mortal has painand sweat is constant,but if there is anything dearer than being alive,it's dark to me.We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing(whatever it is) that glitters on ...”
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“LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.”
— Anne Carson
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