Jennifer Clarvoe Quotes

#1. Certainly not the way someone will have told you the same thing yesterday, made you feel alternately - simultaneously - angry and guilty, guilty because complicit because flattered, therefore unfairly angry.

Jennifer Clarvoe

#2. Easy
to be delighted
or dismayed by POPULAR CULTURE
but then one has no other option and even
'God, it's so dreadful we watch it because it can't help
being funny' is
to be delighted.

Jennifer Clarvoe

#3. Do you know how,
sometimes, when you first wake up,
your pulse is so thorough, so slow,
that you, and the one who is with you,
and the room, and the opening light all seem to swell
and subside and swell inside your heart?

Jennifer Clarvoe

#4. And in the sin of wanting
always to be right, the punishment
is knowing it isn't possible.

Jennifer Clarvoe

#5. We cannot carve or forcibly preserve
or cultivate belief. If it will grow, it grows
as we do - mostly after we have fallen

Jennifer Clarvoe

#6. She isn't here, but around
here, in a deep rain
disappearing.

Jennifer Clarvoe