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
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.
aging permission knows
Life, the permission to know death.
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.
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.
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.