"A traitor commits his crime but once. The……" — Marie Howe
"A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution."
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11 Quotes by Marie Howe
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Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.
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Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.
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Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die,
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Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your…
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But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of…
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Memory is a poet, not an historian.
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We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay…
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I am living. I remember you.
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Poetry is telling something to someone.
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Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated.…
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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it…
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