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

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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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About Anne Carson

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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Banal sexism aside,
I find myself tempted

to read Wuthering Heights as one thick stacked act of revenge
for all that life withheld from Emily.
But the poetry shows traces of a deeper explanation.

As if anger could be a kind of vocation for some women.
It is a chilly thought.

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