Maggie Nelson Quotes
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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
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
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
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 know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.
— Maggie Nelson
How people are often mercilesson 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
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[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
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 kneeswere 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
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
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
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
