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
destiny
Destiny and history are untidy.
strange forgotten said
I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
giving silence littles
I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished
flesh bones ache
Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
too-much miserable made
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
past legs planning
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
men shadow accounts
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
people nasty life-is
For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.