Bedeviled Quotes by Marie Howe

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Marie Howe has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
• Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.
• Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.
• Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die,
• Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and…
• But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner…
• Memory is a poet, not an historian.
• We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s…
• I am living. I remember you.
• Poetry is telling something to someone.
• Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too…

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