“Then I stop existing. She is talking, talking, takes off who knows where, she says it all starts over, speech, paths, butterflies and that she just loves words' inevitable slowness, she says that when in distress everything is overcome by… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her mouth like… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“Then I stop existing. She is talking, talking, takes off who knows where, she says it all starts over, speech, paths, butterflies and that… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live with bare… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
