Quotes About Identity

We hate the ones who are spontaneously different, as if what they loved accused us of unhappiness.

We could never sit at this kitchen table without our terrible and beautiful past and our poems that tell us who we are.

We know ourselves in the extinguishable light, but we know ourselves in another universe

why can't I just live? Why can't I just live?

I wasn't any person any more.

This is my heart, or is it yours, I move within.

I don't want to speak this language that doesn't know me.

But I've always been a poet, that's all, no sex or race, no age or face. Can Eternity strip me of it? That's only another word. I'm inside myself, and inside it.

Now I feel I was inserted into life exactly not to do that. For I have been robbed of everything that made me social

the litup soul/self I have been From time to time I can't remember

It's now strange to live in this body. I don't feel at one with it at all.

we will never see our own bodies, existing for the eyes of others.

Have I come from another world to inhabit this body of mine?

I don't know how to be . . . an- ything but empty.

for everything I am is my mind, that never leaves me.

I am a skeleton. I have a skull with an artifice of fire in its eyes.

I wonder who I will know when I die, if anyone.

I don't remember how to speak for myself anymore

I have so many ideas! I'm so full of thought I can't remember what I look like.

We go where we live—there is nowhere else.

Which one of us was more? He was always more.

We are our songs and films.

How could we stop being us, even when we leave the jeweled cinema?

I don't know what's the point of it, being