5 Quotes by Anne Carson about verse

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    NighthawksI wanted to run away with you tonightbut you are a difficult womanthe rules of you - Past and future circle round usnow we know more now lessin the institute of shadows.On a street black as widowswith nothing to confessour distances found usthe rules of you - so difficult a womanI wanted to run away with you tonight.

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    What is a Lamb of God? People use this phrase.I don't know.I watch my sister, fingers straying absently about her mustache,no help there.

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    Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied.

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    Campaign Against Akhmatova Begins (1922)She ran from lamppost to lamppost, the wind slammed.Trotsky reviewed her in Pravda: One reads with dismay...and an unofficial Communist Party resolution banned her poetry (1925).She didn't notice, didn't know what a Communist Party was in those days.Fog choked the city.Russia's great poets were all about 35 years olScraggly trees wandered by the canal in dim sun.

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    détailsAll the same there are some small questions one would like to put to Sokrates. Or better still Sappho. Avec tes mains brûlées.

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