Alejandra Quotes & Sayings

Everything makes love with silence.
They promised me a silence
like fire, a house of silence.
Suddenly the temple is a circus
the light a drum. — Alejandra Pizarnik

She hated funeral homes with their thick carpets and elegantly appointed decor. She would much prefer an all-out Irish wake where everyone drank too much Guinness and brawls broke out. That's how the dead should be honored- with life and all of it's warts. — Elizabeth Meyette

Every word I write restores me to the absence of why I write what I wouldn't write if I allowed you to come here. — Alejandra Pizarnik

Experience tells me habits are stronger than love, fear, and necessity. — Alejandra Diaz Mattoni

Like a poem that's aware
of the silence of things
you speak so as not to see me — Alejandra Pizarnik

But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die? — Alejandra Pizarnik

Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors — Alejandra Pizarnik

Mouth sewn shut. Eyelids sewn shut. I forgot myself. The wind inside. Everything shut, and the wind inside. — Alejandra Pizarnik

I stored up the purest words
for making new silences — Alejandra Pizarnik

When you make a commitment to live a life of bliss, everyday is an opportunity to live the dream awake. — Tia Walker

Every relationship has its drama and baggage. — Alejandra Deheza

Your voice
in this being unable to move away
from my gaze
things dispossess me
make of me a ship on a river of stones
if your voice is not
rain alone in my feverish silence
you unbind my eyes
and please
may you never stop
speaking
ever — Alejandra Pizarnik

to write is to give meaning to suffering — Alejandra Pizarnik

Behold space trembling like a great madman. — Alejandra Pizarnik

The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification - judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind - essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own. — Karl Pearson

She undresses in the paradise
of her memory
she is unaware of the fierce fate
of her visions
she fears not knowing how to name
what does not exist — Alejandra Pizarnik

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. — John Hench

what if that which ought to be doesn't exist — Alejandra Pizarnik

May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ that I may do what is right, and I may be bright and right in His sight. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The fire had burned to coals and he lay looking up at the stars in their places and the hot belt of matter that ran the chord of the dark vault overhead and he put his hands on the ground at either side of him and pressed them against the earth and in that coldly burning canopy of black he slowly turned dead center to the world, all of it taut and trembling and moving enormous and alive under his hands.
What's her name? said Rawlins in the darkness.
Alejandra. Her name is Alejandra. — Cormac McCarthy

There are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other. — Doris Lessing

He might be too old for it, but I think I can bully him into literacy. — Alejandra Diaz Mattoni

An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself — Alejandra Pizarnik

The hardest part was knowing that I would have to talk about the album when I released it. I think the hardest part was waiting to see how long it would take for me to be able to get through the questions people would ask me. — Alejandra Deheza

Regardless of what others may tell you, you only need two Mexican-Americans for a Mexican standoff. — Alejandra Diaz Mattoni

And it's always the lilac garden on the other side of the river. If the soul should ask you if that is far from here, you should say, On the other side of the river, not this one, but the one over there. — Alejandra Pizarnik

My words demand the silence of a wasteland. — Alejandra Pizarnik

I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it. — Alejandra Deheza

You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began — Alejandra Pizarnik

You write poems
because you need
a place
where what isn't may be — Alejandra Pizarnik

Turning the pages of crime novels it occurs to me to ask how it's possible to write so much without saying the word "pain," "life," or "anxiety." I reject this stupid dehumanization. The behaving without motive. The horrific shutting out of what is most vital or important. — Alejandra Pizarnik

I don't know about birds
nor do I know the history of fire.
But I believe that my solitude should have wings — Alejandra Pizarnik

The night is the color of the eyelids of the dead. — Alejandra Pizarnik

He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd presumed to understand and of which he knew nothing and he felt a loneliness he'd not known since he was a child and he felt wholly alien to the world although he loved it still. He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and it's beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for he vision of a single flower. — Cormac McCarthy

True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything". — Serita Ann Jakes