Alejandra Quotes

#1. Don't you have any respect for your betters?"
"I do. That's why I'm going to help her up the stairs and put her to bed with a cup of hot tea. You can just sit here and ... jangle your manacle!

Christina Dodd

#2. The biggest risk is not taking any risk ... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Mark Zuckerberg

#3. I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to.

Magda Gerber

#4. I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.

Alejandra Deheza

#5. Every word I write restores me to the absence of why I write what I wouldn't write if I allowed you to come here.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#6. People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

Gary Cooper

#7. She undresses in the paradise
of her memory
she is unaware of the fierce fate
of her visions
she fears not knowing how to name
what does not exist

Alejandra Pizarnik

#8. You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began

Alejandra Pizarnik

#9. My words demand the silence of a wasteland.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#10. The hardest part was knowing that I would have to talk about the album when I released it. I think the hardest part was waiting to see how long it would take for me to be able to get through the questions people would ask me.

Alejandra Deheza

#11. It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.

Marge Piercy

#12. Your voice
in this being unable to move away
from my gaze
things dispossess me
make of me a ship on a river of stones
if your voice is not
rain alone in my feverish silence
you unbind my eyes
and please
may you never stop
speaking
ever

Alejandra Pizarnik

#13. A lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Bill Shankly

#14. Everything makes love with silence.
They promised me a silence
like fire, a house of silence.
Suddenly the temple is a circus
the light a drum.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#15. In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

Blake Lively

#16. Turning the pages of crime novels it occurs to me to ask how it's possible to write so much without saying the word "pain," "life," or "anxiety." I reject this stupid dehumanization. The behaving without motive. The horrific shutting out of what is most vital or important.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#17. Mouth sewn shut. Eyelids sewn shut. I forgot myself. The wind inside. Everything shut, and the wind inside.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#18. Behold space trembling like a great madman.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#19. I stored up the purest words
for making new silences

Alejandra Pizarnik

#20. He might be too old for it, but I think I can bully him into literacy.

Alejandra Diaz Mattoni

#21. And it's always the lilac garden on the other side of the river. If the soul should ask you if that is far from here, you should say, On the other side of the river, not this one, but the one over there.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#22. Every relationship has its drama and baggage.

Alejandra Deheza

#23. Like a poem that's aware
of the silence of things
you speak so as not to see me

Alejandra Pizarnik

#24. Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven years he was now quitting school. It was the best day of her life, she replied. With unexpected politeness he bowed, thanked her, and said, likewise.

Carsten Jensen

#25. Money talks, but it don't sing and dance, and it don't walk. And long as I can have you here with me, I'd much rather be, forever in blue jeans.

Neil Diamond

#26. Regardless of what others may tell you, you only need two Mexican-Americans for a Mexican standoff.

Alejandra Diaz Mattoni

#27. Law enforcement's biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.' The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans.

James Comey

#28. Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors

Alejandra Pizarnik

#29. There is no logic to grief.

N.K. Jemisin

#30. The night is the color of the eyelids of the dead.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#31. You write poems
because you need
a place
where what isn't may be

Alejandra Pizarnik

#32. Experience tells me habits are stronger than love, fear, and necessity.

Alejandra Diaz Mattoni

#33. to write is to give meaning to suffering

Alejandra Pizarnik

#34. I don't know about birds
nor do I know the history of fire.
But I believe that my solitude should have wings

Alejandra Pizarnik

#35. Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

Berthold Auerbach

#36. what if that which ought to be doesn't exist

Alejandra Pizarnik