At the Roots of the Stars Quotes

“RAGNA: [softly] In the end I shall kill all that has been my life. First, I must find my king.”
― Djuna Barnes, At the Roots of the Stars: The Short Plays

“RAGNA: All you do not take from the world the world takes from you, all the flowering plants you have denied yourself are full of you, your presence makes the wheat fields uneasy, because of you and likes of you the markets are querulous and mean and overfed. The joints of beef you have not eaten have eaten you. They are glutted with the mouths they have left empty.”
― Djuna Barnes, At the Roots of the Stars: The Short Plays

“THE MAN: We will bury her deep beneath our hearts, yours and mine—for her soul is a flower, and that we may not touch; but her spirit is wine, and that we may drink, that she may have her shroud.”
― Djuna Barnes, At the Roots of the Stars: The Short Plays

“THE MAN: What was it she said, ‘Everything we are denied lives in us, and some day I’ll kill all my life that lives in other things only.’ [He begins to weep softly.] And it’s music will be looking for its song, now she’s dead, and it’s many an eve will come down without color, now she’s no more. Come, let us to the funeral.”
― Djuna Barnes, At the Roots of the Stars: The Short Plays