My Life Quotes

“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

“Drinking Shirley Temple with my Mary Janes on,
let's say that every possibility waits”
― Lyn Hejinian, My Life

“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

“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

“I am a stranger to the little girl I was, and more—more strange. But many facts about a life should be left out, they are easily replaced.”
― Lyn Hejinian, My Life

“Everything is a question of sleep," says Cocteau, but he forgets the shark, which does not. Anxiety is vigilant.”
― Lyn Hejinian, My Life

“Long time lines trail behind every idea, object, person, pet, vehicle, and event.”
― Lyn Hejinian, My Life