quotes by Lyn Hejinian

"In every country is a word which attempts the sound of cats, to match an inisolable portrait in the clouds to a din in the air. But the constant noise is not an omen of music to come."
— Lyn Hejinian (My Life)

"People must flatter their own eyes with their pathetic lives. The things I was saying followed logically the things that I had said before, yet bore no relation to what I was thinking and feeling."
— Lyn Hejinian (My Life)

"A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to know this as politics, because it plays like the work of one person, but nothing is isolated in history -- certain humans are situations."
— Lyn Hejinian (My Life)

"Allegories are told with a purpose whose possibility is lost
Until a potato-eater appears and eats potatoes

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— Lyn Hejinian