Lorine Niedecker famous 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.
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Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.
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Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in.
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I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.
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What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?
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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 Niedecker
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
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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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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is...
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
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But I don't fit. Your family hates me. I make your life difficult." That's where she was wrong. "No, You're my family. And as for making my life difficult, you, Blaire Wynn, make my life complete.
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Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
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When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.
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It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.
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