Quotes About Identity

What ghosts I have I won't or can't give up. Impossible

Better to write for yourself and have no public; than to write for the public and have no self.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.

He felt old and miserable, going through life trying to peddle a personality of which people would not even accept a free sample.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - "Meglio scrivere per se stessi e non avere un pubblico piuttosto che scrivere per gli altri e non essere se stessi".

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

Perché bisogna portare con sé la propria vita come uno spettacolo effimero e invisibile agli altri?

Surely we are all mad people, and they Whom we think are, are not;

Soon we were downloading ourselves into laptops, phones or pads, freer than we had hoped, floating centrifugally across the Internet to swim alongside forgotten selfies, spam emails and porn

We are nothing like the gods. We will never be remembered for the time we attempted the waltz on our balcony, as the stars blinked drowsily, the moon like a frozen yawn. Even with one of us gone, would not the mind of the other reveal its universe, its constellation of memories like a field of flickering candles, the same face at the center of every flame?

Names are what you can hear or see, but cannot smell or touch. I don't need a name, as name stand for things they are not, and I am what all names stand for. If you gave me a name, it would mean that we are separate, you and I, when we are not. - The Blind Girl and the Talking Moon

What does it mean to write a story of your own life in your head? We all do that whether we are writers or not. We all have a story about who we are: what gender we are, what experiences we have . . . all sorts of stories and narratives we allow ourselves to believe in and create as we go along.

Learn a new language and get a new soul.

I am not my own friend. Time cuts me in two.

No, non imiterò mai coloro che cancellano le proprie tracce, ripudiano il proprio passato e sono morti, anche se con equilibrismi intellettuali fanno finta di essere vivi. Le mie radici sono laggiù, all'Est, su questo non v'è alcun dubbio. Anche se trovo difficile e spiacevole spiegare chi sono, bisogna pur tentare di farlo.

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? Czes?aw Mi?osz

Who I will be when I wake after enduring

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will. What I'm saying here is not, I agree, poetry, as poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, under unbearable duress and only with the hope that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their instrument.

I was driven because I wanted to be like others. I was afraid of what was wild and indecent in me.

alla fin fine, bisogna saper apprezzare i vantaggi che si traggono dalle proprie origini.

And who can consent at the mirror to a mere face of man?

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!

To tell the truth we should not exist. We, not any collective plural, just you and me.

Farewell Piorewiczowna, unasked for shadow I don't even remember your first name.