Lorine Niedecker Quotes

• Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.

  Lorine Niedecker

  Art, Strange, Fit

  Lorine Niedecker (2013). “Lake Superior”, p.52, Wave Books

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• I rose from marsh mud
  algae, equisetum, willows,
  sweet green, noisy
  birds and frogs.

  Lorine Niedecker

  Sweet, Rose, Bird

  Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.415, 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 Niedecker

  Wall, Winter, Popcorn

  Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.218, 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 Niedecker

  Two, Lines, Months

  Lorine Niedecker (2002). “Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.

  Lorine Niedecker

  Nature, Lakes, Sky

  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 Niedecker

  Poetry, Grandfather, Desks

  Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy (2002). “Collected Works”, p.194, Univ of California Press

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