Quote by Erin Moure Download Open image ““That there is a before-speaking, that we did not always speak.”” — Erin Moure ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Then there were so many things to be said that they did not speak of any of them.” — Milton Steinberg Copy Share Image
“They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Words are not the only way we communicate, you and I. They never were.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, "I have learned never to say, 'Never again.” — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another--language was just there to hide their thoughts.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of… — Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“They did not speak of it the first night, when they spoke of everything until dawn, nor would they ever speak of it. But… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“no one says a word that has not been spoken a thousand times before, a thousand thousand times, and even the first of those… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“...one did not need to speak much, only to say what was worth hearing when one did.” — Shelley Adina Copy Share Image
“Today, I refuse to be pinned down to an identity. Right away, I want to betray it.” — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
“In one ear the anthropologist (daughter): how are you? meaning: stay alive. In the other the artist (mother): I don't know. meaning: prepare to… — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
“this responsibility for the death of my (m)other, is a significance so irreducible that it is from it that the meaning of death may… — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
“this was passed to writing and the content of a writing burned can no longer be handed back to memory, for writing abolishes memory… — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
“Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb… — Erin Mouré Copy Share Image
“If experience requires entry into language, then we cannot experience death, for language ceases. There is no remnant.” — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
“is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.” — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
“Experience appears in this world as a birth. A birth which takes as assistants sky and earth and the water and wood and mountains… — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
