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.”

“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

“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.”

Creatures in an Alphabet (1982)