Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they wan… - Anne Carson

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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

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Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, and professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.

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Alternative Names: Anne Patricia Carson

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Four of the roses were on fire.
They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets
and howling colossal intimacies
from the back of their fused throats.
- XXVII. MITWELT

Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.

She doesn't get to say much in the official biography — I believe they are out of wine, etc., practical things — watching with one eye as he goes about the world calling himself The Son Of Man.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do. - Anne Carson

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