To write, you must first belong to yourself. 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 ... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be. Nicole Brossard patriarchy not-sure ifs 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 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
