Carrie > Carrie's Quotes

“Abyss is not an absence
Though presence be destroyed.”
― Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Tabula Rosa

“Draw draft of "milk" these words
are milk the point of this is
drink.”
― Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Tabula Rosa

“Listen with your eyes because here you cannot decipher what is said out of the effort of mouths.”
― Myung Mi Kim, Dura

“Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before...but the little house stayed just the same.”
― Virginia Lee Burton, The Little House

“Dopamine can be read as the ultimate feminist chemical in the female brain.”
― Naomi Wolf, Vagina: Revised and Updated

“Drunkenness as a triumphant irruption of the plant in us.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe in the economy. . . . We have to see that the economy is itself the crisis.”
― The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection

“A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”
― Jay-Z, Decoded

“I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I must be myself. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart appoints. If you are noble, I will love you; if you are not, I will not hurt you and myself by hypocritical attentions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own. I do this not selfishly but humbly and truly. It is alike your interest, and mine, and all men’s, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth. Does this sound harsh to-day? You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine, and if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.—But so may you give these friends pain. Yes, but I cannot sell my liberty and my power, to save their sensibility. Besides, all persons have their moments of reason, when they look out into the region of absolute truth; then will they justify me and do the same thing.
The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“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