When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.

- Olga Broumas

I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.

- Olga Broumas

Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up f…

- Olga Broumas

Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of w…

- Olga Broumas

Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.

- Olga Broumas

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

- Olga Broumas

Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.

- Olga Broumas