Fanny Howe Quotes

#1. I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.

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#2. If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.

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#3. The ring comes whenever it will
because it's dark
where the mountains mother
and being stuck in one spot
is something to ring bells about

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#4. Why does a heart wear its eyes
into hell
like slivers of false sunshine

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#5. In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

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#6. If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough ...

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#7. I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

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#8. Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.

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