"They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana,……" — Kate Braverman
"They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?"
—
Kate Braverman
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
17 Quotes by Kate Braverman
Kate Braverman has 17 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
-
All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.
-
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution…
-
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do…
-
Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke.…
-
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
-
Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.
-
I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.
-
In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.
-
Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.
-
I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the…
-
I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line…
See all 17 quotes by Kate Braverman »
More Age Quotes
This quote is filed under Age Quotes,
one of 9,856 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
See all 9,856 Age Quotes »