Quotes from Ingrid Bengis

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

I knew. I was not naive. I didn't want to know. I was naive.

Since this is Russia, such things are to be expected, though of course, neither he nor anyone else expected it.

This isn't business. This is poetry.

how much patience is a virtue, how much rage is a necessity?

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.