Maren > Maren's Quotes

“You misinterpret everything, even the silence.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“What the hell is tragedy? I am.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Clara, why don't I dream of you?”
― Adrienne Rich, (The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977) [By: Adrienne Rich] [May, 2013]

“One way to open a body to the stars, with a knife. / One way to love a sister, help her bleed light.”
― Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

“So ironic: I pick up poetic identities of characters who commit suicide, adultery, or get murdered, and I believe completely in them for a while.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

“What does the God of your childhood look like?
A soft apparition pigeoned in the attic,

a wound eating you one year at a time?”
― Rachel McKibbens

“You have my permission not to love me;
I am a cathedral of deadbolts
and I’d rather burn myself down
than change the locks.”
― Rachel McKibbens

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
― Anne Sexton

“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art.”
― Susan Sontag

“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ”
― Susan Sontag

“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
― William Blake