Lorine Niedecker quotes
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“Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.”
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“Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.”
-- Lorine NiedeckerSource : Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.242, Univ of California Press
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“Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.”
-- Lorine NiedeckerSource : Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.194, Univ of California Press
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“Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.”
-- Lorine NiedeckerSource : Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.218, Univ of California Press
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“I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.”
-- Lorine NiedeckerSource : Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.415, Univ of California Press
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“What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?”
-- Lorine NiedeckerSource : Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.143, Univ of California Press
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“Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.”
-- Lorine NiedeckerSource : Lorine Niedecker (2013). “Lake Superior”, p.52, Wave Books
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.”
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Source : Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) (2009). “Calder: Sculptor of Air”, 24 Ore Cultura
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