I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left. There's a reason to go on.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep appreciation for language and its ability to evoke emotions and memories, even through loss.
Lidia Yuknavitch's quote conveys a powerful connection between love for language and the raw experiences of life, particularly those filled with loss and chaos. It highlights how language can allow us to navigate through difficult emotions and confront our pasts, transforming pain into beauty and providing hope for the future. The imagery used paints a vivid picture of struggles and triumphs, suggesting that through language and storytelling, we can find meaning and reasons to continue despite hardship.
In practice
This quote can inspire writers to embrace their craft despite challenges.
I don't have any problem understanding why people flunk out of college or quit their jobs or cheat on each other or break the law or spray-paint walls. A little bit outside of things is where some people feel each other. We do it to replace the frame of family. We do it to erase and remake our origins in their own images. To say, I too was here.
This is something I know: damaged women? We don't think we deserve kindness. IN fact, when kindness happens to us, we go a little berserk. It's threatening. Deeply. Because if I have to admit how profoundly I need kindness? I have to admit that I hid the me who deserves it down in a sadness well.
People - I mean couples - don't like to talk much about fighting. It's not attractive. No one likes to admit it or describe it or lay claim to it. We want our coupledoms to look... sanitized and pretty and worthy of admiration. And anger blasts are ugly. But, I think that is a crock. There is a kind of fighting that isn't ugly. There is a way for anger to come our as an energy you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage.
Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.
True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.
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