Alicia Ostriker Quotes

• Art destroys silence.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Art, Silence

  "Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich". Book by Solomon Volkov, New York: Limelight, pp. 158-9, 2006.

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• Anyway, what is the soul but a dream of itself?

  Alicia Ostriker

  Dream, Soul

  Alicia Ostriker (1982). “A Woman Under the Surface: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.47, Princeton University Press

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• The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Mother, Thinking, Humanity

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• I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Summer, Dog, Strong

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• The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit—sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Writing, Unique, Voice

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• I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth's feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also 'asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.' A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Pain, Memories, Book

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