"Popcorn-can cover / screwed to the wall / over a hole / so the cold / can't mouse in."

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Source : Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.218, Univ of California Press

Lorine Niedecker

#Wall Quotes #Winter Quotes #Popcorn Quotes

“I have a hyper personality.”
“I've always enjoyed the record shops...they gave me a reason to leave my house.”
“It costs $2,500 to purchase a song and I know from experience that I like to score with songs.”

Source : Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk
“I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.”

Source : "Top 5 Things I’m Thankful for" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2010.
“One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.”
“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”
“The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.”

Source : "Music View; When Inspired Awfulness Becomes Interesting" by Donal Henahan, www.nytimes.com. August 31, 1986.
“The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.”

Source : Herbert Gold (1994). “Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool”, Touchstone Books

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