Frasi di Natalie Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney è stata una scrittrice e poetessa statunitense.

Trasferitasi in Francia nel 1899, trascorse gran parte della sua vita a Parigi animando per quasi sessant'anni, nella sua abitazione al 20 Rue Jacob, sulla Rive Gauche, un salotto letterario internazionale che sarebbe stato frequentato da alcuni fra i più importanti esponenti del modernismo.

Promotrice della letteratura femminile, organizzando, dal 1927 nel suo salon, la cosiddetta Académie des Femmes , un'informale consesso accademico che si opponeva - nei suoi proponimenti - al maschilismo dell'Académie française. Considerando lo "scandalo" come "Il miglior modo di liberarsi dei fastidi" non fece mai mistero delle sue scelte di vita personali, pubbliche e politiche dichiarandosi apertamente lesbica, femminista, sostenitrice del paganesimo, del pacifismo e della poliamoria. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Ottobre 1876 – 2. Febbraio 1972
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Natalie Barney frasi celebri

“Sono fatalisti in quel che concerne altri.”

Citato in Le petit philosophe de poche, Textes réunis par Gabriel Pomerand

“Il tempo, questo scultore cui talvolta riescono così bene le teste di vecchio.”

Citato in Le petit philosophe de poche, Textes réunis par Gabriel Pomerand

Natalie Barney: Frasi in inglese

“If we are bothered by possessions we cannot really live either from without or from within; we are the possession of our possessions.”

In "My Country 'tis of Thee", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)
Contesto: I am beginning to have a healthy dread of possessions, be it of a country, a house, a being or even an idea. If we are bothered by possessions we cannot really live either from without or from within; we are the possession of our possessions. All wars and most loves come from the possessive instinct. Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men: that you may belong to everything and everything be yours inclusive of yourself.
Could we, and we can, have the vital necessities for all, we should do away with this cry of class and begin to differentiate between individuals.
Individual superiority can alone feed the soul and give back through some materialisation of itself this individualised wealth of being.

“Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men: that you may belong to everything and everything be yours inclusive of yourself.”

In "My Country 'tis of Thee", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)
Contesto: I am beginning to have a healthy dread of possessions, be it of a country, a house, a being or even an idea. If we are bothered by possessions we cannot really live either from without or from within; we are the possession of our possessions. All wars and most loves come from the possessive instinct. Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men: that you may belong to everything and everything be yours inclusive of yourself.
Could we, and we can, have the vital necessities for all, we should do away with this cry of class and begin to differentiate between individuals.
Individual superiority can alone feed the soul and give back through some materialisation of itself this individualised wealth of being.

“The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.”

In "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)

“If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.”

In "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)

“Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.”

In "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)

“Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.”

As quoted in The Amazon of Letters, Ch. 10 (1976) by George Wickes

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