Lorine Niedecker Quotes

#1. I was the solitary plover
a pencil
for a wing-bone
From the secret notes
I must tilt
upon the pressure
execute and adjust
In us sea-air rhythm
We live by the urgent wave
of the verse

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#2. Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.

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#3. What would they say if they knew
I sit for two months
on six lines of poetry?

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#4. I rose from marsh mud
algae, equisetum, willows,
sweet green, noisy
birds and frogs.

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#5. Poet's Work
Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade
I learned
to sit at desk
and condense
No layoffs
from this
condensery

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#6. Strange - we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence - but they all fit in if the art is right.

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#7. Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

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#8. Can knowledge be conveyed that isn't felt?
But if transport's the problem -
they tell me get a job and earn yourself
an automobile-I'd rather collect my parts
as I go: chair, desk, house
and crankshaft Shakespeare.
Generator boy, Paul, love is carried
if it's held.

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#9. Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.

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