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.
Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.
Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.
He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
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