Lorine Niedecker Quotes

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I met him
We were thick
We said good-bye
on The Passing Years
River.

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

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

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

Lorine Niedecker
We are gawks
lusting
after wild orchids
Wait! What's this? —
sign:
Flowers
loveliest
where they grow
Love them enjoy them
and leave them so
Let's go!

Lorine Niedecker
Nobody, nothing ever gave me
greater thing
than time
unless light
and silence
which if intense makes sound

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O my floating life
Do not save love for things
Throw things
to the flood

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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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Ah your face
but it's whether
you can keep me warm.

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

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

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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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