John Berger Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.

  John Berger

  Heart, Years, Clothes

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

• All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity - their links with their dead and the unborn.

  John Berger

  Heart, Names, Links

• The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.

  John Berger

  Heart, Doors, Two

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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