Nicole Brossard Quotes

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Nicole Brossard

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• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Painting
  • Matter
  • Pleasure

• Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Mean
  • Imagination
  • Doors

• We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Country
  • Mean
  • United States

• I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • School
  • Mean
  • Singing

• I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Black
  • Artist
  • Inspired

• Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Pleasure
  • Trouble
  • Complicated

• Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Should
  • Poet
  • Modern

• I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • House
  • Control

• Desire and longing are the whips of God.

  

  Anna Wickham
  • God
  • Desire
  • Longing

• Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure

• I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the stardom and celebrity that I can handle. But I also have peace and quiet. I am left alone. And I am not recognized everywhere I go and it's perfect. I can come and fill the theatres and I get on stage ... people say: "Well, oh yeah, that must be him," you know?

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Peace
  • Perfect

• On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Moral
  • Pleasure

• Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Pleasure

• This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • World
  • Good
  • Want

• To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Love

• There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Play
  • Mean
  • Tunes

• You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mean
  • Clear
  • Separation

• There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Three

• It's better to be pissed off than pissed on.

  

  Shawn Michaels
  • Better
  • Pissed

• There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Moments
  • Evil

• The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • War
  • Peace
  • Health

• To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

  

  Nicole Brossard
  • Mean
  • Pleasure
  • Poet