Candice Daquin > Candice's Quotes

“Walk through this with me. Through this church birthed of blood and muscle where every move our arms take, every breath we swallow is worship. Bend with me. There are bones in our throats. If we choke it is only on songs.”
― Anis Mojgani

“Under a smoky streetlamp I stood face to face with my beloved and pricked my fingers against the diamond studs of her immaculate shirt front. Being tall, she slipped her hands naturally about my hips and pulled me close. And being bold, I put my mouth on hers and this time went inside and told her all the things I’d been longing to. Dark and sweet, the elixir of love is in her mouth. The more I drink, the more I remember all the things we’ve never done. I was a ghost until I touched you. Never swallowed mortal food until I tasted you, never understood the spoken word until I found your tongue. I’ve been a sleep-walker, sad somnambula, hands outstretched to strike the solid thing that could awaken me to life at last. I have only ever stood here under this lamp, against your body, I’ve missed you all my life.”
― Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

“In a wired world, silence is suspicious.”
― Richard Milton, Bad Company

“Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.”
― Miller Williams

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
― Horace

“A public official must understand from his first day in office that any show of initiative will signal the end of his career because he isn't there to be meritorious but to reach his level of incompetence with dignity.”
― Isabel Allende

“If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.”
― Rita Dove

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”
― Nicole Lyons

“It is what it is and we are who we are and no measure of hope or time wasted wishing, will ever make it never so.”
― Nicole Lyons

“May you never become so cynical that you let a star fall without its wish.”
― Nicole Lyons, Blossom and Bone

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to be. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“Another To Echo”

How beautiful you must be
to have been able to lead me
this far with only
the sound of your going away
heard once at a time and then
remembered in silence
when the time was gone
you whom I have never seen
o forever invisible one
whom I have never mistaken
for another voice
nor hesitated to follow
beyond precept and prudence
over seas and deserts
you incomparable one
for whom the waters fall
and the winds search
and the words were made
listening

— W.S. Merwin, The Moon Before Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)”
― W.S. Merwin, The Moon Before Morning

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat

“I'm not a person who needs people, but I am the kind of person who needs to be near people who don't need me.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.”
― Francois Sagan

“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
― Françoise Sagan

“LGB people, a once-tiny group of women and men trying to love those of the same sex openly and be treated equally within society, has likely already been subsumed by capitalism and is now infiltrated by the medical industrial complex via transgenderism.”
― Jennifer Bilek, Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour

“But the fetish is what is being marketed as progressive: dissociation from the sexed body, male ownership of womanhood reduced to parts, and women as objects of sexual fixation, have flourished with new technological and pharmacological advancements.”
― Jennifer Bilek, Transsexual Transgender Transhuman: Dispatches from The 11th Hour

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I write in terror...I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence, sometimes every syllable.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“When they sprinkle on the soul
Colours make you vibrant from within
Let your aura be covered with so much vividity
That the hues and your demeanor twin”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

“Each woman is a solitaire-
Precious, glittering and soulful.
She has risen from the ashes,
She has built her house of warmth
Brick by brick.
Treasure her, admire her, cherish her,
And you shall see magic!”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

“The entire quest is for acceptance. You run from pillar to post for being accepted as you are. This quest ends only when you realize that the most important in life is to accept yourself totally, wholly and completely. Unfortunately, that is a long drawn process and it takes time to reach that level. However, once you reach that stage, you are at entire peace with yourself.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

“A poem is like a score for the human voice.”
― Li-Young Lee