Quote by: Djuna Barnes

I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished.


Share this:  

Author Bio


  • NameDjuna Barnes
  • DescriptionAmerican Modernist writer, poet and artist
  • BornJune 12, 1892
  • DiedJune 18, 1982
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author; Novelist
  • WorksLadies Almanack; Nightwood