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Maggie Nelson quotes: Poor marriage! Off we went to kill it (unforgivable). Or reinforce it (unforgivable).

Poor marriage! Off we went to kill it (unforgivable). Or reinforce it (unforgivable).

Maggie Nelson quotes: (Visibility makes possible, but it also disciplines: disciplines gender, disciplines genre.)

(Visibility makes possible, but it also disciplines: disciplines gender, disciplines genre.)

Maggie Nelson quotes: A man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

A man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

Maggie Nelson quotes: But why bother with diagnoses at all, if a diagnosis is but a restatement of the problem?

But why bother with diagnoses at all, if a diagnosis is but a restatement of the problem?

Maggie Nelson quotes: There is nothing you can throw at me that I cannot metabolize, no thing impervious to my alchemy.

There is nothing you can throw at me that I cannot metabolize, no thing impervious to my alchemy.

Maggie Nelson quotes: 58. "Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing" (Leonardo da Vinci).

58. "Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing" (Leonardo da Vinci).

Maggie Nelson quotes: What I know: when I met you, a blue rush began. I want you to know, I no longer hold you responsible.

What I know: when I met you, a blue rush began. I want you to know, I no longer hold you responsible.

Maggie Nelson quotes: Ginsberg, Clifton, Sedgwick - are

Ginsberg, Clifton, Sedgwick - are

Maggie Nelson quotes: I feel at once the need to die and be reborn one thousand years ago.

I feel at once the need to die and be reborn one thousand years ago.

Maggie Nelson quotes: The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy.

The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be not happy.

Maggie Nelson quotes: Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that?

Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that?

Maggie Nelson quotes: Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.

Maggie Nelson quotes: To take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you?

To take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you?

Maggie Nelson quotes: You've punctured my solitude, I told you.

You've punctured my solitude, I told you.

Maggie Nelson quotes: I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude right, this is the prize.

I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude right, this is the prize.

Maggie Nelson quotes: I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.

I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.

Maggie Nelson quotes: Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.

Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.

Maggie Nelson quotes: How people are often mercilesson those they love the most

How people are often merciless
on those they love the most

Maggie Nelson quotes: Attempts to nail down "who we really are" most often serve as rhetorical pawns in unwinnable arguments fueled by competing agendas

Attempts to nail down "who we really are" most often serve as rhetorical pawns in unwinnable arguments fueled by competing agendas

Maggie Nelson quotes: The Oblivion Seekers, a collection one critic has described as "one of the strangest human documents that a woman has given to the world.

The Oblivion Seekers, a collection one critic has described as "one of the strangest human documents that a woman has given to the world.

Maggie Nelson quotes: The time for blithely asserting that sleeping with whomever you want however you want is going to jam its machinery is long past.

The time for blithely asserting that sleeping with whomever you want however you want is going to jam its machinery is long past.

Maggie Nelson quotes: Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.

Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.

Maggie Nelson quotes: In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

Maggie Nelson quotes: The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

Maggie Nelson quotes: I labor grimly on these sentences, wondering all the while if prose is but the gravestone marking the forsaking of wildness

I labor grimly on these sentences, wondering all the while if prose is but the gravestone marking the forsaking of wildness

Maggie Nelson quotes: What if where I am is what I need?

What if where I am is what I need?

Maggie Nelson quotes: [He] told me more than once that being with me is like an epileptic with a pacemaker being married to a strobe light artist.

[He] told me more than once that being with me is like an epileptic with a pacemaker being married to a strobe light artist.

Maggie Nelson quotes: But really justice has no coordinates, no teleology.

But really justice has no coordinates, no teleology.

Maggie Nelson quotes: I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.

I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.

Maggie Nelson quotes: I am trying to talk about what blue means, or what it means to me, apart from meaning.

I am trying to talk about what blue means, or what it means to me, apart from meaning.

Maggie Nelson quotes: In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Maggie Nelson quotes: To devote yourself to someone else's pussy can be a means of devoting yourself to your own.

To devote yourself to someone else's pussy can be a means of devoting yourself to your own.

Maggie Nelson quotes: And certainly there are many speakers whom I'd like to see do more trembling, more unknowing, more apologizing.

And certainly there are many speakers whom I'd like to see do more trembling, more unknowing, more apologizing.

Maggie Nelson quotes: We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.

We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.

Maggie Nelson quotes: Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.

Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.

Maggie Nelson quotes: We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.

We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.

Maggie Nelson quotes: But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. "Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." 240.

But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. "Love is not consolation," she wrote. "It is light." 240.

Maggie Nelson quotes: The moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.

The moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.

Maggie Nelson quotes: You, reader, are alive today, reading this, because someone once adequately policed your mouth exploring.

You, reader, are alive today, reading this, because someone once adequately policed your mouth exploring.

Maggie Nelson quotes: 229. I am writing all this down in blue ink, so as to remember that all words, not just some, are written in water.

229. I am writing all this down in blue ink, so as to remember that all words, not just some, are written in water.

Maggie Nelson quotes: I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

Maggie Nelson quotes: As if keening on your kneeswere somehow obsceneAs if there were a controlso marvelousyou could teach itto eat pain.

As if keening on your knees
were somehow obscene
As if there were a control
so marvelous
you could teach it
to eat pain.

Maggie Nelson quotes: I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. 72.

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. 72.

Maggie Nelson quotes: But while the color may sap appetite in the most literal sense, it feeds it in others.

But while the color may sap appetite in the most literal sense, it feeds it in others.

Maggie Nelson quotes: Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way? (Thoreau).

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way? (Thoreau).

Maggie Nelson quotes: 95. But please don't write again to tell me how you have woken up weeping. I already know how you are in love with your weeping.

95. But please don't write again to tell me how you have woken up weeping. I already know how you are in love with your weeping.

Maggie Nelson quotes: It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

Maggie Nelson quotes: We have not yet heard enough, if anything, about the female gaze. About the scorch of it.

We have not yet heard enough, if anything, about the female gaze. About the scorch of it.

Maggie Nelson quotes: Mother and her entire family line are obsessed with skinniness as an indicator of physical, moral, and economic fitness.

Mother and her entire family line are obsessed with skinniness as an indicator of physical, moral, and economic fitness.

Maggie Nelson quotes: I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

Maggie Nelson quotes: Skin is soft; it takes what you do to it.

Skin is soft; it takes what you do to it.

Maggie Nelson quotes: The mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.

The mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.

Maggie Nelson quotes: So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.

So far as I can tell, most worthwhile pleasures on this earth slip between gratifying another and gratifying oneself. Some would call that an ethics.

Maggie Nelson quotes: Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

Maggie Nelson quotes: Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

Maggie Nelson quotes: And we have not yet heard enough, if anything, about the female gaze. About the scorch of it, with the eyes staying in the head.

And we have not yet heard enough, if anything, about the female gaze. About the scorch of it, with the eyes staying in the head.