Lorine Niedecker Quotes

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

Lorine Niedecker

#2. Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

Indra Nooyi

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

Lorine Niedecker

#4. 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.

Lorine Niedecker

#5. Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

Mark Driscoll

#6. Evil depends on where you're standing.

Veronica Roth

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

Lorine Niedecker

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

Lorine Niedecker

#9. Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Well, I had just completed the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.

Martha McSally

#10. If you are going to worry about it, I won't.

Donald G. Reinertsen

#11. I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

Benmont Tench

#12. I think the best thing you can hope for, as you continue on, is to learn so much from every job.

Eloise Mumford

#13. My classmates surround me as I sit in this folding chair. They laugh and hug one another and talk about how much they will miss each other once they're gone. And all I can think is that I have been gone for a long time, but none of them miss me.

Amanda Grace

#14. In the end ... hatred will consume, divide and destroy even the strongest of nations. It's devastating powers has destroyed in the past & still can destroy today.

Timothy Pina

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

Lorine Niedecker

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

Lorine Niedecker

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

Lorine Niedecker

#18. 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

Lorine Niedecker

#19. I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.

Pat Metheny