Lorine Niedecker Quotes

“I rose from marsh mudalgae, equisetum, willows,sweet green, noisybirds and frogs.”

“I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.”

“I was the solitary plovera pencil for a wing-boneFrom the secret notesI must tiltupon the pressureexecute and adjust In us sea-air rhythm"We live by the urgent waveof the verse”

“Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.”

“Autumn colors remind us we are all one dancing in the wind.”

“Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game. I know there is love in the world still and that is what i wish to surround myself with. Sacrifice your time and energy into something positive instead of the negative and you will see that change around you.”

“The Universe is made of our thoughts.Our thoughts are infinite.”

“The fountain of youth resides in our memory. You will never outlive your shadow.”

“One day stores will no longer have gender classifications. Instead the consumer decides how and what they want, rather than the social engineering of corporations. The concept of gender will be extinct.”

“Happiness has to exist in the mind before it can exist in life”