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Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red
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— Anne Carson, Wonderwater
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Grief Lessons, Anne Carson
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Trista Mateer, "Baggage", from Honeybee
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when anne carson wrote “i have no idea what this sentence means but it gives me a thrill. it fills me with wonder.” perfect description of poetry
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Aeschylus (trans. Anne Carson), from An Oresteia; “Agamemnon”
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Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red
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Sappho, tr. by Anne Carson, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
— Anne Carson, from “Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides”
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When Anne Carson said, “I once loved you now I don’t know you at all” and when Margaret Atwoood said, “I used to say I’d know you anywhere, but it’s getting harder” and when Marina Tsvetaeva said, “You seem already gone” and when Henry Dumas said, “I caught you forgetting me” and when
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mary maclane, the story of mary maclane / pierre bonnard - jeune femme écrivant, 1908 / louise fitzhugh, harriet the spy / phil grey - two photos from will self’s writing room: a 360 degree view in 71 photos, 2007 / tom astor - susie boyt’s notebooks, 2018 / stephen king, on writing / jill krementz - stephen king at his home office with his corgi marlowe, 1995 / joan didion - “on keeping a notebook” / wayne miller - author and poet maya angelou, 1974 / photo of sylvia plath from the everett collection / anne carson in a 2016 interview with NPR / octavia butler’s motivational notes to self / jim carroll, the basketball diaries / benjamin garcia - writing painting, 2012 / wayne pascal - writer’s block, 2019 / louisa may alcott, little women / little women (2019) / mary shelley (2017) / dickinson (2019) / anne lamott, bird by bird
on writing
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“i was written by a man” “i was written by a woman” i was written by sophocles and then translated by anne carson
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