J. M. Coetzee Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Desire, Coins, Language

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “In the Heart of the Country: A Novel”, p.22, Penguin

• Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?

  J. M. Coetzee

  Lying, Two, Desire

  J. M. Coetzee (2005). “Slow Man”, Viking Press

• Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Ambition, Self, Political

  "Erasmus's Praise of Folly: Rivalry and Madness". Neophilologus Journal, 1992.

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