Susan Howe Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Susan Howe
I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across. — Susan Howe
Edwards's stark presentation of the immanent consciousness of Separation enters the structure of her poems. Each word is a cipher, through its sensible sign another sign hidden. The recipient of a letter, or combination of letter and poem from Emily Dickinson, was forced much like Edwards' listening congregation, through shock and through subtraction of the ordinary, to a new way of perceiving. Subject and object were fused at that moment, into the immediate feeling of understanding. This re-ordering of the forward process of reading is what makes her poetry and the prose of her letters among the most original writing of her century. — Susan Howe
A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe
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 comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses. — Susan Howe
Soundwaves. It's the difference between one stillness and another stillness. — Susan Howe
Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power. — Susan Howe
Now faith is not what we
hereafter have we have a
world resting on nothing
Rest was never more than
abstract since it is empty
reality we cannot escape — Susan Howe
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
Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence? — Susan Howe
We are all clothed with fleece of sheep I keep saying as if
I were singing as these words do. Throw a shawl over me
so you won't be afraid to sleep. I have already shown that
space is God. — Susan Howe
we that were wood
when that wide wood was
in a physical Universe playing with
words
bark be my limbs my hair be leaf
Bride be my bow my lyre my quiver — Susan Howe