The fact is that there are people, good people who, not bec… - Anne Carson

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The fact is that there are people, good people who,
not because they want to
but all the same,
fall in love with the wrong thing.

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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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There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

When I desire you
a part of me
is gone.

The fact is that there are people, good people who, not because they want to but all the same, fall in love with the wrong thing. - Anne Carson

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