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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ginsberg, Clifton, Sedgwick - are — Maggie Nelson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How people are often merciless
on those they love the most — Maggie Nelson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What if where I am is what I need? — Maggie Nelson

[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

But really justice has no coordinates, no teleology. — Maggie Nelson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Loneliness is solitude with a problem. — Maggie Nelson

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. — Maggie Nelson