Olga Broumas quotes
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“Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.”
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“She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.”
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“Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.”
-- Olga BroumasSource : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
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“Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.”
-- Olga BroumasSource : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
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“When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.”
-- Olga BroumasSource : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
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“I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.”
-- Olga BroumasSource : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
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“Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.”
-- Olga Broumas
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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Source : "The Heart of Things".
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“I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II”
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