Djuna Barnes: Likeness

Djuna Barnes was American Modernist writer, poet and artist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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“I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished.”

Djuna Barnes

Silence

“Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.”

Djuna Barnes book Nightwood

Source: Nightwood (1936), Ch. 7 : Go Down, Matthew

Life

“The Seal, she lounges like a bride,
Much too docile, there's no doubt;
Madame Récamier, on side,
(if such she has), and bottom out.”

Djuna Barnes

Creatures in an Alphabet (1982)