... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be. Nicole Brossard More Quotes by Nicole Brossard More Quotes From Nicole Brossard To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. Nicole Brossard delight sensual mean A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian. Nicole Brossard radical sexuality Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary. Nicole Brossard territory consciousness writing A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing. Nicole Brossard sexuality doe world Loving a woman is always political. Nicole Brossard loving-a-woman political To write, you must first belong to yourself. Nicole Brossard writing firsts The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself. Nicole Brossard sexuality energy giving Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women. Nicole Brossard sexuality poet humanity The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality. Nicole Brossard threatening sexuality reality I cannot get close to any you. Nicole Brossard Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear. Nicole Brossard disappear magic language 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. Nicole Brossard unique energy synthesis 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 Brossard memories book moving 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. Nicole Brossard language eye book