Diane Di Prima Quotes

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I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life
Diane di Prima
The only war is the war against the imagination.
Diane di Prima
More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild
Diane di Prima (Revolutionary Letters)
It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across railroad tracks, off bridges under cars, or stiff glass bottle still in hand, hair soft on greasy pillows, still it is news she cannot follow love (his burning footsteps in blue crystal snow) & still come out all right.
Diane di Prima
The best thing to do with a mimeograph is to drop it from a five story window, on the head of a cop
Diane di Prima (Revolutionary Letters)
In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love
Diane di Prima
There are as many kinds of kisses as there are people on earth, as there are permutations and combinations of those people. No two people kiss alike—no two people fuck alike—but somehow the kiss is more personal, more individualized than the fuck.
Diane di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST THE IMAGINATION THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST THE IMAGINATION THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST THE IMAGINATION ALL OTHER WARS ARE SUBSUMED IN IT
Diane di Prima (Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems)
Left to themselves people grow their hair. Left to themselves they take off their shoes. Left to themselves they make love sleep easily share blankets, dope & children they are not lazy or afraid they plant seeds, they smile, they speak to one another. The word coming into its own: touch of love on the brain, the ear. We return with the sea, the tides We return as often as leaves, as numerous as grass, gentle, insistent, we remember the way, our babes toddle barefoot thru the cities of the universe.
Diane di Prima (Revolutionary Letters)
The value of an individual life a credo they taught us to instill fear, and inaction, 'you only live once' a fog on our eyes, we are endless as the sea, not separate, we die a million times a day, we are born a million times, each breath life and death: get up. put on your shoes, get started, someone will finish
Diane di Prima (Revolutionary Letters)
Avete presente quando cominciate a leggere un nuovo libro prima che la membrana di quello precedente abbia avuto il tempo di richiudersi dietro di voi? Quando lasciate il vecchio libro avete idee, argomenti - perfino personaggi - impigliati nelle fibre dei vestiti e, aprendo quello nuovo, scoprite che sono ancora con voi.
Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)
We thought we were doing the same things we'd always done because the changes happened in slow motion, but happen they did, and when we looked out the window we were someplace else.
Diane di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
Corsi verso di loro. La bimba era fra le braccia della madre, e io lascia cadere la spada, mi sfilai l'elmo e mi inginocchiai lì accanto. - Dian - sussurrai. - Amore mio. Vidi l'anima tremolare ancora nei suoi occhi. Mi vide, Dian mi vide, e vide sua madre, prima di morire. Ci guardò per un istante, poi la sua giovane anima si allontanò leggere come un'ala nel buio, senza rumore, come una fiamma di candela spenta da un soffio di vento. Lavaine le aveva tagliato la gola mentre saltava verso il braccio del fratello e adesso il suo piccolo cuore aveva rinunciato a lottare. Ma riuscì ancora a vedermi, prima di morire. Ne sono certo. Mi vide, poi morì, e io abbracciai lei e sua madre e piansi come un bambino. Piansi per le mia piccola, adorata Dian.
Bernard Cornwell (La torre in fiamme)
w/ out imagination there is no memory w/ out imagination there is no sensation w/ out imagination there is no will, desire … the war that matters is the war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it.
Diane di Prima
Opium was decadent. Opium was for grandfathers.
Cynthia Palmer (Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience: Charlotte Brontë, Louisa May Alcott, Anaïs Nin, Maya Angelou, Billie Holiday, Nina Hagen, Diane di Prima, Carrie Fisher, and Many Others)
You never do get to go back to anything, but it really takes a long time to learn that….
Diane di Prima (Memoirs of a Beatnik)
নববর্ষের বৌদ্ধ গান আমি তোমাকে সবুজ মখমলে দেখলুম, ঝোলাহাতা পোশাক আগুনের সামনে বসে আছ, আমাদের বাড়ি কোনোরকমে করে তোলা হয়েছে আরও সৌষ্ঠবপূর্ণ, আর তুমি বললে “তোমার চুলে নক্ষত্র রয়েছে”-- এই সত্য আমি নিজের সঙ্গে নিয়ে এলুম এই প্যাচপ্যাচে আর নোংরা জায়গায় যাকে আমরা করে তুলব সোনালি করে তুলব দামি আর কিংবদন্তিপ্রতিম, এটা আমাদের স্বভাব, আর এটাই সত্য, যে আমরা এখানে এসেছি, আমি তোমাকে বললুম, অন্য গ্রহ থেকে যেখানে আমরা ছিলুম দেবীদেবতা, আমাদের এখানে পাঠানো হয়েছে, কোনো বিশেষ উদ্দেশ্যে যে সোনালি মুখোশ আমি আগে দেখেছিলুম, তা খাপ খেয়ে গেলো তোমার মুখে এতো সুন্দরভাবে, ফেরত দিলে না ষাঁড়ের মুখ তুমি যোগাড় করেছিলে সেটাও উত্তরের লোকজনদের মাঝে, যাযাবরের দল, গোবি মরুভূমি ওই তাঁবুগুলো আমি আর দেখিনি, ওয়াগনগুলোকেও নয় অত্যন্ত ঝোড়ো উপত্যকায় অত্যন্ত শ্লথ, এতো ঠাণ্ডা, আকাশে প্রতিটি নক্ষত্রের ভিন্ন-ভিন্ন রঙ ছিল আকাশ নিজেই একটা জট পাকানো রঙচঙে পর্দা, ঝলমল করছিল কিন্তু প্রায়, আমি সেই গ্রহ দেখতে পাচ্ছিলুম যেখান থেকে আমরা এসেছি আমি মনে করতে পারিনি ( তখন ) আমাদের উদ্দেশ্য কি ছিল কিন্তু মহাকাল নামটা মনে ছিল, ভোরবেলায় ভোরবেলায় শিবকে প্রত্যক্ষ করলুম, শীতল আলো মেলে ধরল “মননপ্রসূত” জগতগুলো, তেমনই সহজ, আমি দেখলুম তাদের প্রচার, বয়ে যাচ্ছে, কিংবা, সহজভাবে বললে, একটা আয়না আরেকটাকে প্রতিবিম্বিত করছিল। তারপর আয়নাগুলো ভেঙে ফেললুম, তোমাকে আর দেখতে পেলুম না কিংবা কোনো উদ্দেশ্য, এই নতুন কালোময়তার দিকে তাকিয়ে রইলুম মননপ্রসূত জগতগুলো বিদায় হলো, আর মন হয়ে গেল স্তব্ধ : এক উন্মাদনা, নাকি এক সূত্রপাত ? ভালোবাসার একটি অনুশীলন জ্যাকসন অ্যালেনের জন্য আমার বন্ধু আমার স্কার্ফ নিজের কোমরে বেঁধে রাখে আমি ওকে দিই চন্দ্রকান্তমণি
Diane di Prima (Beat Poetry)
The vortex of creation is the vortex of destruction. The vortex of artistic creation is the vortex of self destruction. The vortex of political creation is the vortex of flesh destruction.
Diane di Prima