Susan Howe Quotes

#1. I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

Susan Howe

#2. In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses.

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#3. If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

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#4. Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?

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#5. Soundwaves. It's the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

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#6. A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

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#7. Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power.

Susan Howe

#8. Now faith is not what we
hereafter have we have a
world resting on nothing

Rest was never more than
abstract since it is empty
reality we cannot escape

Susan Howe

#9. There's a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That's the fascination of archives. There's still a bodily trace.

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#10. We are all clothed with fleece of sheep I keep saying as if

I were singing as these words do. Throw a shawl over me

so you won't be afraid to sleep. I have already shown that

space is God.

Susan Howe

#11. we that were wood
when that wide wood was

in a physical Universe playing with


words

bark be my limbs my hair be leaf
Bride be my bow my lyre my quiver

Susan Howe