Erin Moure Quotes

#1. That there is a before-speaking, that we did
not always speak.

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#2. If experience requires entry into language, then we cannot experience death, for language ceases. There is no remnant.

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#3. A mother is the unmemntioable boundary
that can never come fully clear.

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#4. To know any thing, time must go backward.

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#5. Look up for the stars. Where light meets earth, the land rolls back to ache of verges but do not with it turn.

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#6. Experience appears in this world as a birth. A birth which takes as assistants sky and earth and the water and wood and mountains and the clouds. Experience does not come out of the mind or imagination but from a deep and irrecusable need. It rents the entire person.

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#7. There were cries, screech , it weep.
The rest weep from we, who emerge.
There was one wall of weeping. And we have parted with you.

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#8. mine is an ongoing subsection more passive than any passivity.

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#9. In us they are the sign of the whole.

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#10. On the date before the date, time reverses.

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#11. For if thought that exceeds what has yet been
thought were not possible, the infinite would not be possible, and self/
itself or subjectivity its intermediary transcendence/ incendiary.

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#12. this was passed to
writing and the content of a writing burned can no longer be
handed back to memory, for writing abolishes memory and as what
was written can no longer be passed down, it has no Author in the old
sense: no ability to act as proxy to, to verify on behalf of.

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#13. Numeration comes from 1 and 2, not 0 and 1. The 2 is silence, unanswerable without the 1.
How: a means. Are: exist. You: subject, other?

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#14. We who are lost love you to in each.

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#15. Today, I refuse to be pinned down to an identity. Right away, I want to betray it.

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#16. When there was no one left, it became nowhere. There were no more letters after the w.

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#17. Unfortunately, censure has cut history up.

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#18. There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats.

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#19. Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada).

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#20. In one ear the anthropologist (daughter): how are you? meaning: stay alive.
In the other the artist (mother): I don't know. meaning: prepare to die, and transmit.

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#21. [Take me in your arms] a way of seeing then.

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#22. is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.

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#23. People who are making sense are just making me laugh, is all.

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#24. Some people come from nowhere.

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