Sharon Doubiago Quotes & Sayings

I am five, I will never understand
why we are stranded in our selves
but in this moment I know
my own story
is understanding our singleness
that I am destined to move my body and time
into the body-time
the story
of Others. — Sharon Doubiago

My mother is a poem
I'll never be able to write,
though everything I write
is a poem to my mother. — Sharon Doubiago

The local paper is called the World. — Sharon Doubiago

When I was a girl
the books I read were by men.
— Sharon Doubiago

The smaller man said again, 'See the Buddha in everyone.'
How different, I thought, that is from Brakhage, who says it is the artist's business to discover the particularity that distinguishes you from all others. Your virtue. Your vision that makes you separate from others. I remembered that he quoted Robert Duncan. 'Soul is not universal. It is a created-creative event. — Sharon Doubiago