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
criticism betrayed
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
dream facts
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
next hazards moments
The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.
mind priceless misinformation
The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.
narrative
I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.
men needs looks
No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.
sleep demand guilty
Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity.
data age causes
Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
law produce certainty
Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
I've seen death and I didn't like it.
peculiar life-is
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.
block thinking hair
Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.
uncles mean hard-work
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form ...
boston color mind
When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.