Djuna Barnes

“What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?”

“the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.”

“A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.”

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”

“Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.”

“...he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient.”