What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: [Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness. Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can’t know it will be the last. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Impermanence, Loss, Uncertainty, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it’s about losing people you love. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Loss, Love, Vanity, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Actions, Destination, Identity, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Literature, Role models, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The greatest works of literature seem to embody both “art” and “morality”. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Art, Literature, Morality, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Content, Memory, Technique, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Avoidance, Isolation, Self-awareness, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ When you give up struggle, there’s a kind of love. Author, October 28, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Love, Struggle, Surrender, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Read explanation Frida Kahlo Painter · Mexico
All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
