Nicole Brossard quotes
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“To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.”
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard, Louise Forsyth (2009). “Mobility of light: the poetry of Nicole Brossard : a bilingual publication”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
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“Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.”
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“To write, you must first belong to yourself.”
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
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“The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.”
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
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“Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women ...”
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
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“The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.”
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
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“A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.”
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
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“A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.”
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr
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“Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.”
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“Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.”
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“The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using ‘filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.’ Parasite or creature in mutation on the shore, torrid / delirium: mordant mortality, systematic competition the narrator against the I, leaking gas, a lapse of memory against a promise, an inset in a book. A muscular, involuntary bulging in the breast, circling all its inner surface: mesoblast: visceral.”
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard, Larry Shouldice, Patricia Claxton (2003). “The Blue Books: A Book, Turn of a Pang, French Kiss, Or, A Pang's Progress”, p.255, Coach House Books
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“I cannot get close to any you.”
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood (2006). “Mauve Desert”, p.30, Coach House Books
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“... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.”
-- Nicole BrossardSource : Nicole Brossard (2005). “Fluid Arguments: Essays Written in French and English”, Mercury Press (Canada)
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