Nicole Brossard Quotes

• ... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

  Nicole Brossard

  Not Sure, Patriarchy, Ifs

  Nicole Brossard (2005). “Fluid Arguments: Essays Written in French and English”, Mercury Press (Canada)

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• A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

  Nicole Brossard

  Doe, World, Sexuality

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

  Nicole Brossard

  Mean, Sensual, Delight

  Nicole Brossard, Louise Forsyth (2009). “Mobility of light: the poetry of Nicole Brossard : a bilingual publication”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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• A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.

  Nicole Brossard

  Sexuality, Radical

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• 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

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• 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, Moving, Book

  Nicole Brossard, Larry Shouldice, Patricia Claxton (2003). “The Blue Books: A Book, Turn of a Pang, French Kiss, Or, A Pang's Progress”, p.255, Coach House Books

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• Loving a woman is always political.

  Nicole Brossard

  Political, Loving A Woman

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• Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

  Nicole Brossard

  Writing, Territory, Consciousness

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• I cannot get close to any you.

  Nicole Brossard

  Nicole Brossard, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood (2006). “Mauve Desert”, p.30, Coach House Books

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• To write, you must first belong to yourself.

  Nicole Brossard

  Writing, Firsts

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• 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

  Giving, Energy, Sexuality

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.

  Nicole Brossard

  Humanity, Poet, Sexuality

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.

  Nicole Brossard

  Reality, Threatening, Sexuality

  Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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• Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

  Nicole Brossard

  Magic, Language, Disappear

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• 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

  Book, Eye, Language

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