Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the … - Anne Carson

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

Anne Carson

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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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"You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."
Madness doubled is marriage
I added
when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce
a golden rule."

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

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

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

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