Ambiguity Quote by Susan Howe

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“Rivers course through my dreams, rivers cold and fast, rivers well-known and rivers nameless, rivers that seem like ribbons of blue water twisting through…

— Harry Middleton

“Poetry has a mysterious way of illustrating the landscapes of life. One can't help but love its audacity to record the journey.”

— L.v. Jones

“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

“Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“That over these sea pastures, wide rolling watery prairies, and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb…

— Herman Melville

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly;…

— John Betjeman

“Oh, but clever words On pages turn to fragments, circles, points and lines And they cover them like carpets With graceful, meaningless, ornamental designs”

— Aaron Weiss

“Poets dream of being archaeologists, as if their lives were sedimentary, like rocks. Poets don't mind getting down and dirty with the past.”

— Katharine Haake

“But when the self—not a fictional character—is the landscape of the story, we can’t afford to be blind to our own themes and the…

— Dani Shapiro

“Writers don’t write in a void. We work in a physical space, a room, ideally in a house like Laxness’s Gljúfrasteinn, but also we…

— David Mitchell

“Rise & set, ebb & flow; the rhythms of our world.”

— Cathryn Louis