Pizarnik Alejandra Quotes

#1. Roger and I would squat in the heavily scented shade of the myrtle bushes and watch the array of creatures that passed us; at certain times of the day the branches were as busy as the main street of a town.

Gerald Durrell

#2. I love making people smile. I get so much energy through interacting and feeling like I've made a difference, a small difference.

Debbi Fields

#3. The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

Gore Vidal

#4. I don't know if it is my confidence or my techniques.
I think it is a little of both.

Joseph Farrell

#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. 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

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

Alejandra Pizarnik

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

Alejandra Pizarnik

#9. 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

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

Alejandra Pizarnik

#11. These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand.

George Lois

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Alejandra Pizarnik

#15. The dichotomy is delicious. Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real problems like having no voice in community, or no right to work; no access to capital to start a business. No reinforcement for talent.

Stella Atrium

#16. Behold space trembling like a great madman.

Alejandra Pizarnik

#17. Live fully present in this world with your heart attuned to God's heart, and you will be torn by the sight of so much suffering and ignorance.

Maria Grace Dateno

#18. I am visible and immutable - carefully hidden behind a secret, secret. I

Anonymous

#19. Coach was going to make us do striders today, but I talked him out of it

Amanda Smith

#20. 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

#21. to write is to give meaning to suffering

Alejandra Pizarnik

#22. For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

Rita Dove

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

Alejandra Pizarnik

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

Alejandra Pizarnik

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

Alejandra Pizarnik

#26. The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

Richard Neal

#27. Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her chief duties that of preventing people from making those old mistakes; from making them over and over again forever, as people always do if they are left to themselves.

G.K. Chesterton

#28. Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

N. T. Wright

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

Alejandra Pizarnik

#30. 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

#31. As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

Steve Martin

#32. Come on, Ms. Baird. I promised early on that I wouldn't bite." A slow smile. "Unless you make the request, of course.

Nalini Singh

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

Alejandra Pizarnik