Nicole Brossard Quotes
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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.
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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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Loving a woman is always political.
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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.
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Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.
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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.
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I cannot get close to any you.
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Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.
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... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.
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Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.
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A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.
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A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.
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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.
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The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.
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