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
case life nasty painful short
Life is painful, nasty and short . . . in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
bohemia good less waiter
Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else -- and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?
men shadow accounts
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.
past legs planning
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
flesh bones ache
Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
strange forgotten said
I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
curves joy unendurable
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
too-much miserable made
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
new-york cities typical
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
heart jealous imperfection
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
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
men use
Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.
destiny
Destiny and history are untidy.
night skins may
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.