Erin Moure

“Today, I refuse to be pinned down to an identity. Right away, I want to betray it.”

— Erin Moure

“In one ear the anthropologist (daughter): how are you? meaning: stay alive. In the other the artist (mother): I don't know. meaning:…

— Erin Moure

“mine is an ongoing subsection more passive than any passivity.”

— Erin Moure

“this responsibility for the death of my (m)other, is a significance so irreducible that it is from it that the meaning of…

— Erin Moure

“In us they are the sign of the whole.”

— Erin Moure

“this was passed to writing and the content of a writing burned can no longer be handed back to memory, for writing…

— Erin Moure

“Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review,…

— Erin Mouré

“If experience requires entry into language, then we cannot experience death, for language ceases. There is no remnant.”

— Erin Moure

“People who are making sense are just making me laugh, is all.”

— Erin Mouré

“is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.”

— Erin Moure

“Unfortunately, censure has cut history up.”

— Erin Moure

“Experience appears in this world as a birth. A birth which takes as assistants sky and earth and the water and wood…

— Erin Moure

“There were cries, screech , it weep. The rest weep from we, who emerge. There was one wall of weeping. And we…

— Erin Moure

“For if thought that exceeds what has yet been thought were not possible, the infinite would not be possible, and self/ itself…

— Erin Moure

“Some people come from nowhere.”

— Erin Moure

“Numeration comes from 1 and 2, not 0 and 1. The 2 is silence, unanswerable without the 1. How: a means. Are: exist. You: subject, other?”

— Erin Moure

“Look up for the stars. Where light meets earth, the land rolls back to ache of verges but do not with it…

— Erin Moure

“When there was no one left, it became nowhere. There were no more letters after the w.”

— Erin Moure

“That there is a before-speaking, that we did not always speak.”

— Erin Moure

“We who are lost love you to in each.”

— Erin Moure

“A mother is the unmemntioable boundary that can never come fully clear.”

— Erin Moure

There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it…

— Erin Moure

“To know any thing, time must go backward.”

— Erin Moure

“On the date before the date, time reverses.”

— Erin Moure

“[Take me in your arms] a way of seeing then.”

— Erin Moure