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
wind skins mortality
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
people nasty life-is
For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
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.
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.
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.
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.