Poetry Quote by Siri Hustvedt — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.”

“We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.”

“We chart delusions through collective agreement.”

“I will deck thee with trophies, garlands of my defeat. It is never in my power to escape unconquered.”

“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.”

“There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.”

“At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,”

“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.”

“Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,”