Top 35 Anna Kamienska Quotes
#1. My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
Anna Kamienska
#2. I received the grace of shadows. The grace of remaining in the dark.
- From A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook
Anna Kamienska
#3. 25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
Daniel Boulud
#4. I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.
Anna Kamienska
#9. The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That's the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.
Anna Kamienska
#10. I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.
Anna Kamienska
#11. No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.
Anna Kamienska
#12. I've learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what's unsaid, what's underneath. Understanding on another level of being.
Anna Kamienska
#13. I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
Annette Bening
#15. I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.
Anna Kamienska
#16. There are things better left untouched by words ...
Anna Kamienska
#17. I'm moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that's how we really are.
Anna Kamienska
#19. Tell me what's the difference
between hope and waiting
because my heart doesn't know
It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting
It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope
Anna Kamienska
#20. Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.
Simon Sinek
#22. We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.
Anna Kamienska
#23. To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.
Anna Kamienska
#24. On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.
Lisa Snowdon
#26. Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell's wall. To write like that.
Anna Kamienska
#29. I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that's all.
Anna Kamienska
#30. This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?
Anna Kamienska
#31. The immense light. A state of inner emergency and waiting ... This luminosity does not negate reason or any rational sense. It simply exists. A kind of poetic sensibility open to the world. To everything
grand and small.
Anna Kamienska
#32. During the sleepless hours of the night
a thought came to me that seemed important. I got up in the dark and wrote it down. In the morning I read: 'I went looking for loneliness. But it found me.
Anna Kamienska
#33. THERE IS SOMETHING INHERENTLY DECEPTIVE ABOUT REALITY.
Alexandar Tomov
#34. Lack of Faith"
Yes,
even when I don't believe -
there is a place in me
inaccessible to unbelief,
a patch of wild grace,
a stubborn preserve,
impenetrable,
pain untouched by the sleeping body,
music that builds its nest in silence.
Anna Kamienska
#35. I have hands full of this radiance. It flows through my fingers. It doesn't diminish.
Anna Kamienska
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