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
data age causes
Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.
heart lasts muscles
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
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.
new-york cities typical
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
thinking brides
Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?
thinking sick
To think is to be sick...
aging permission knows
Life, the permission to know death.
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.
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.