Quotes by Helene Cixous

Helene Cixous

And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.

Silence

Wings

Writing

By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display – the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.

Self

Spring

Writing

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

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I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

Sick

Sickness

Worst

I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life

Believe

I Believe

Together

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

Language

Life And Death

Said

Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.

Fixed

Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.

Meditation

Needs

Writing

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Broken Heart

Lost Love

Way

Other-Love is writing’s first name.

Love Is

Names

Writing

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Greater

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Lambs

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Laughing

Life And Death

Lost Love

Love Is

Manage

Mean

Meditation

Men

Names

Needs

Passages

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Said

Searching For Love

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Quotes by Helene Cixous

Helene Cixous

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.

I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.

Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Other-Love is writing’s first name.

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