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
aging permission knows
Life, the permission to know death.
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?
endurance ruins depravity
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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.
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.
data age causes
Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.