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
writing foolish draws
I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.
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.
too-much miserable made
I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
taken heart love-is
Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves.
thinking brides
Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?
endurance ruins depravity
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
self truth-is shocking
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
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.
philosophical forever lasts
Only the impossible lasts forever.
dream facts
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.