Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. |
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. |
Since flesh can't stay, We pass the words along |
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. |
Solitude is un-American. |
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world |
Surviving meant being born over and over. |
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. |
The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before. |
The job of the writer is to seduce the demons of creativity and make up stories. Often you go to bed with a man who claims to be a demon and later you find out he's just an everyday slob. |
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. |
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel |
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier. |
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. |
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives. |