Poetry Quote by Hélène Cixous — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying-they are strange buildings-we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside very human being-sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment. But we are also the happiest people on earth; we make love as we never make love in life.”

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

“sometimes when everything seems at”

“I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.”

“The world was fair, the mountains tall”

“Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?”

“I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against”