Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barneswas an American writer and artist best known for her novel Nightwood, a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth12 June 1892
CityStorm King Mountain, NY
CountryUnited States of America
mind littles be-careful
No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into...
doubting-everything looks gorges
Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy
writing foolish draws
I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.
wish looks too-much
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.
self truth-is shocking
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
wind skins mortality
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
honesty liars men
God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth weigh! She couldn't tell me the truth because she had never planned it; her life was a continual accident, and how can you prepare for that? Everything we can't bear in the world, some day we find in one person, and love it all at once.... There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purty's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?
men pounds philosopher
You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.
thinking sick
To think is to be sick...
bad-day nasty life-is
Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
breakup lying love-is
None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
aging permission knows
Life, the permission to know death.
humble men identity
Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.
philosophical forever lasts
Only the impossible lasts forever.