History Quote by Susan Howe Download Open image “If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.” — Susan Howe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Ifs Literature Poetry Records Shelter Survivor Voice
“History is a living entity. Not just because of its survivors, and the stories they have to tell, but because of its enduring power… — Dan Fesperman Copy Share Image
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
“We are all clothed with fleece of sheep I keep saying as if I were singing as these words do. Throw a shawl over… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
“we that were wood when that wide wood was in a physical Universe playing with words bark be my limbs my hair be leaf… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
“God was true everything was a mother's role in childhood Someone was in that garden each knowing the other to be entirely inasmuch what… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
“Now faith is not what we hereafter have we have a world resting on nothing Rest was never more than abstract since it is… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
