Nicole Brossard Quotes

#1. A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

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#2. To write, you must first belong to yourself.

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#3. Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

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#4. He says tools but somebody will mention the cutting edges of things and one will see billhook, scythe, fauchard, debris, wood chips and sketches all entangled like words in summertime, when crickets and corn, lives and vines, sunflowers and stormy hours touch and quench one another.

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#5. To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

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#6. she wanted because art

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#7. The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.

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#8. Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.

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#9. A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.

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#10. Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

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#11. The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.

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#12. Since I've been rereading this book I'm anchored at point zero, considering a thousand strategies and points of view which soon dissolve, abstraction, abstraction, the gaze melts.

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#13. Loving a woman is always political.

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#14. I cannot get close to any you.

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#15. When two words are identical, you must not take undue offence or think you have been wronged in terms of choice. Simplicity is a fine patience of meaning.

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#16. Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women ...

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#17. If patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

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#18. Women laugh in such ways that we can't see the fences in their breathing

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#19. I was fifteen and with every ounce of my strength I was leaning into my thoughts to make them slant reality toward the light.

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