Susan Howe Quotes

#1. You don't have to dance. Just brood in beat to the music.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#2. 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

#3. Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week.

Matt Fitzgerald

#4. 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

#5. 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.

Susan Howe

#6. 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

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

Susan Howe

#8. In college football brad, you know, when you make a first down, first downs that you have possession of aren't really that important because if you make a first down it stops the clock

Bob Griese

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

Susan Howe

#10. The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

Charles Keating

#11. Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape. Other days are more dismal. As if I were queueing in the rain outside confessional literature's nudist colony, mirrors everywhere, blue with cold.

Fredrik Sjoberg

#12. He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

Joe Hill

#13. hope; like calcium, hope was part of the structure of her bones.

Dean Koontz

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

Susan Howe

#15. I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me.

Miranda Lambert

#16. But their discovery of the void brings with it new implications: not only that they must continue on in their actions and diligence, no longer considered as duties but as gratuitous, senseless routines, but also the exhilarating realization that all is nothing but a game.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#17. A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows ... but to reach into them too.

Thomas Scopel

#18. Cuticle care can tell you a lot about a person.

Rick Yancey

#19. of the agreed facts: the official bedding; the young couple co-habiting at Ludlow; their youth and health; and the absence of any concern about the consummation of their marriage; convincingly indicates

Philippa Gregory

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

Susan Howe

#21. I come in, fuck shit up, grab my bitches, and proceed home." My mentality entering every social function.

Jamee N. Crosby

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

Susan Howe

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

Susan Howe

#24. If only you could keep them that way: cast in amber, never growing up

Jodi Picoult

#25. Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing
faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

Terry Tempest Williams

#26. 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.

Susan Howe