Joyce Carol Oates citáty a výroky
Joyce Carol Oates: Citáty anglicky
Zdroj: The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
“Prose — it might be speculated — is discourse; poetry ellipsis.”
"'Soul at the White Heat': The Romance of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry," (Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities (1988)<!-- E.P. Dutton -->
Kontext: Prose — it might be speculated — is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of "communication"; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider’s delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.
“I think that art is the commemoration of life in its variety.”
Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself (2013)
Kontext: I think that art is the commemoration of life in its variety. The novel, for instance, is “historic” in its embodiment in a specific place and time and its suggestion that there is meaning to our actions. Without the stillness, thoughtfulness and depths of art, and without the ceaseless moral rigors of art, we would have no shared culture — no collective memory. As it is, in contemporary societies, where so much concentration is focused on social media, insatiable in its myriad, fleeting interests, the “stillness and thoughtfulness” of a more permanent art feels threatened.
Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself (2013)
Kontext: My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can’t live without dreaming — as we can’t live without sleep. We are “conscious” beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep — the “unconscious.” It is nourishing, in ways we can’t fully understand.
“We all have numerous identities that shift with circumstances.”
Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself (2013)
Kontext: We all have numerous identities that shift with circumstances. The writing self is likely to be a highly private, conjured sort of being — you would not find it in a grocery store.
Joyce Carol Oates kniha Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Zdroj: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Joyce Carol Oates kniha After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
Zdroj: After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away
“Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.”
Varianta: Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Zdroj: The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982
Joyce Carol Oates kniha First Love: A Gothic Tale
Zdroj: First Love: A Gothic Tale
“She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.”
Joyce Carol Oates Black Water
Zdroj: Black Water
