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Anne Carson Quote: “A translator is someone trying to get in between a body and its shadow.”

151. “A translator is someone trying to get in between a body and its shadow.”

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Anne Carson Quote: “XII. WINGS Steps off a scraped March sky and sinks Up into the blind Atlantic morning One small Red dog jumping across the beach miles below Like a freed shadow.”

152. “XII. WINGS Steps off a scraped March sky and sinks Up into the blind Atlantic morning One small Red dog jumping across the beach miles below Like a freed shadow.”

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Anne Carson Quote: “Who ever desires what is not gone? No one. The Greeks were clear on this. They invented eros to express it.”

153. “Who ever desires what is not gone? No one. The Greeks were clear on this. They invented eros to express it.”

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Anne Carson Quote: “It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.”

154. “It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.”

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Anne Carson Quote: “I wonder if there might not be another idea of human order than repression, another notion of human virtue than self-control, another kind of human self than one based on dissociation of inside and outside. Or indeed, another human essence than self.”

155. “I wonder if there might not be another idea of human order than repression, another notion of human virtue than self-control, another kind of human self than one based on dissociation of inside and outside. Or indeed, another human essence than self.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “I cannot not grieve.”

156. “I cannot not grieve.”

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Anne Carson Quote: “Geryon watched the top of Herakles’ head and felt his limits returning. Nothing to say. Nothing.”

157. “Geryon watched the top of Herakles’ head and felt his limits returning. Nothing to say. Nothing.”

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Anne Carson Quote: “He felt Herakles’ hand move on his thigh and Geryon’s head went back like a poppy in a breeze –.”

158. “He felt Herakles’ hand move on his thigh and Geryon’s head went back like a poppy in a breeze –.”

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Anne Carson Quote: “Gods are stubborn. So am I.”

159. “Gods are stubborn. So am I.”

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Anne Carson Quote: “I would like to grasp why it is that these two activities, falling in love and coming to know, make me feel genuinely alive. There is something like an electrification in them.”

160. “I would like to grasp why it is that these two activities, falling in love and coming to know, make me feel genuinely alive. There is something like an electrification in them.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “When I desire you a part of me is gone: my want of you partakes of me.”

161. “When I desire you a part of me is gone: my want of you partakes of me.”

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Anne Carson Quote: “Girls are cruellest to themselves.”

162. “Girls are cruellest to themselves.”

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Anne Carson Quote: “I don’t think anybody ever knows what another person means when they speak, frankly. It’s more than translation, it’s just throwing yourself into the dark. Language is so very, very personal, private. Weird. I guess you could think of it as translation, that seems like a kind of euphemistic metaphor. It’s probably a lot more hopeless than that. But the effort of speaking as a human is the effort to get past that hopelessness with every sentence.”

163. “I don’t think anybody ever knows what another person means when they speak, frankly. It’s more than translation, it’s just throwing yourself into the dark. Language is so very, very personal, private. Weird. I guess you could think of it as translation, that seems like a kind of euphemistic metaphor. It’s probably a lot more hopeless than that. But the effort of speaking as a human is the effort to get past that hopelessness with every sentence.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Tragedy is not concerned with human justice. Tragedy is the statement of an expiation, but not he miserable expiation of a codified breach of a local arrangement organized by the knaves for the fools. The tragic figure represents the expiation of the original sin, of the original and eternal sin of... having been born.”

164. “Tragedy is not concerned with human justice. Tragedy is the statement of an expiation, but not he miserable expiation of a codified breach of a local arrangement organized by the knaves for the fools. The tragic figure represents the expiation of the original sin, of the original and eternal sin of... having been born.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Elektra: I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.”

165. “Elektra: I ask this one thing: let me go mad in my own way.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “I clutch, all language vanished from my mind. We knock each other over in a violent embrace.”

166. “I clutch, all language vanished from my mind. We knock each other over in a violent embrace.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “Don’t want to be free want to be with you.”

167. “Don’t want to be free want to be with you.”

— Anne Carson

Anne Carson Quote: “The experience of eros as lack alerts a person to the boundaries of himself, of other people, of things in general. It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.”

168. “The experience of eros as lack alerts a person to the boundaries of himself, of other people, of things in general. It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.”

— Anne Carson

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