Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barneywas an American playwright, poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth31 October 1876
CountryUnited States of America
Natalie Clifford Barney quotes about
american-author intangible lack near realities
There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
quiet language
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
vices harm deliberate
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.
renunciation
With renunciation life begins.
believer
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.
prejudice defense natural
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate.
personality oneself
One is not oneself every day-fortunately.
paris cities fit
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
together married being-married
To be married is to be neither alone nor together.
ambition ifs
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.
learning heart dark
A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.
shadow
Our shadows are taller than ourselves.
silence
Silence too can be indiscreet.
sensuality
Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.