When you are falling in love it is always already too late:… - Anne Carson

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When you are falling in love it is always already too late: dēute, as the poets say.

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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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When I desire you
a part of me
is gone.

Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of what is lacking in the actual.

M: Is he smart
I: She yes very smart sees right through me
M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

When you are falling in love it is always already too late: dēute, as the poets say. - Anne Carson

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