Quotes About Niedecker

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

Lorine Niedecker

#2. Thinking happens in your heart. Put your attention in your heart. Ask the questions from your heart. Then listen to your heart.

Amanda Gore

#3. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Thomas Fuller

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

Lorine Niedecker

#5. Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.

Clint Dempsey

#6. He was fingering his great horn.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. 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

#8. Shine your light, you will inspire others to radiant their inner light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Lorine Niedecker

#10. We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing.

Bre Pettis

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

Lorine Niedecker

#12. Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative - it believes in progress.

Elif Batuman

#13. Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.

Jimmy Fallon

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

Lorine Niedecker

#15. I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

Yasunari Kawabata

#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