Marie Howe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die,
-- Marie Howe

#Alive
Memory is a poet, not an historian.
-- Marie Howe

#Memories #Poet #Historian
Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled / among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.
-- Marie Howe

#Sleep #Tangled #Tongue
Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.
-- Marie Howe

#Body #Stories #Forget
I am living. I remember you.
-- Marie Howe

#Remember
But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless:Â I am living. I remember you.
-- Marie Howe

#Glasses #Hair #Glimpse
Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.
-- Marie Howe

#Envy #Suffering #Forgiven
A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
-- Marie Howe

#Crime #Retribution #Traitor
Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.
-- Marie Howe

#Silence #Complicated
Poetry is telling something to someone.
-- Marie Howe

#Poetry Is
We tell each other stories to help each other live. Thatâ€™s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. Thatâ€™s why I went to poetry in the first place, thatâ€™s why I stay with it, thatâ€™s why Iâ€™ll never leave it.
-- Marie Howe

#Stories #Alive #Firsts

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