"Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The……" — Marie Howe
"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 complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it."
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Marie Howe
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11 Quotes by Marie Howe
Marie Howe has 11 quotes on this site.
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A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
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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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