Nicole Brossard famous quotes

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

#Mean #Sensual #Delight

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.
-- Nicole Brossard

#Writing #Territory #Consciousness

To write, you must first belong to yourself.
-- Nicole Brossard

#Writing #Firsts

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

#Giving #Energy #Sexuality

Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women ...
-- Nicole Brossard

#Humanity #Poet #Sexuality

The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.
-- Nicole Brossard

#Reality #Threatening #Sexuality

A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.
-- Nicole Brossard

#Sexuality #Radical

A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.
-- Nicole Brossard

#World #Doe #Sexuality

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.
-- Nicole Brossard

#Magic #Language #Disappear

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.
-- Nicole Brossard

#Unique #Synthesis #Way

The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using ‘filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.’ Parasite or creature in mutation on the shore, torrid / delirium: mordant mortality, systematic competition the narrator against the I, leaking gas, a lapse of memory against a promise, an inset in a book. A muscular, involuntary bulging in the breast, circling all its inner surface: mesoblast: visceral.
-- Nicole Brossard

#Memories #Moving #Book

Loving a woman is always political.
-- Nicole Brossard

#Political

I cannot get close to any you.
-- Nicole Brossard

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.
-- Nicole Brossard

#Not Sure #Patriarchy