Fanny Howe quotes
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“Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.”
-- Fanny HoweSource : Fanny Howe (2003). “Gone: Poems”, p.25, Univ of California Press
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“We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.”
-- Fanny HoweSource : Fanny Howe (2000). “Indivisible”, Semiotext
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“If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough.”
-- Fanny HoweSource : Fanny Howe (2000). “Selected poems”
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.”
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“Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.”
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