Nicole Brossard quotes:

Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.

A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

Loving a woman is always political.

The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

she wanted because art

A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.

I cannot get close to any you.

Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women ...

Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.

The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality.

To write, you must first belong to yourself.

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.