“Even as I learned to name the plants -- dogwood, five-fingered fern, mugwort -- I was stunned by the failure of language to reflect what I saw or felt.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is both. We are ourselves story, just as we are language. That is the nature of both narrative and… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“Even as I learned to name the plants -- dogwood, five-fingered fern, mugwort -- I was stunned by the failure of language to reflect… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“Poets dream of being archaeologists, as if their lives were sedimentary, like rocks. Poets don't mind getting down and dirty with the past.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“When a basket is woven, each strand of grass, or reed, or wool, or root, must pass repeatedly through human hands, and this, the… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that is not both narrative and language. Even the paradoxical physics by which the universe is held together is both. We… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.” — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
“In general, we imagine rivers to be subject to a kind of dynamic equilibrium, largely stable geologic features, with processes like regional incision or… — Katharine Haake Copy Share Image
